Overgrown by vegetation, former Liberian president Samuel Doe’s residence today lies in ruins, littered with refuse and riddled with bullet holes. Our Observer Saint Tra Bi paid it a visit. Through his pictures and videos, he hoped to document the lingering scars that war has left on Liberia.

In the late 1980s Liberian president Samuel Doe built a huge presidential palace in the southeastern city of Zwedru, where he had grown up. But four months before construction was due to end, the president, who had seized power in a coup d’état in 1980, was tortured and assassinated live on television by Prince Johnson, the rebel chief and key figure of the first Liberian Civil War. It took place during a conflict that claimed 250,000 lives between 1989 and 1997, pitting Samuel Doe’s government against insurgents led by his former adviser Charles Taylor.

A vestige of the war that plunged the entire region into a spiral of violence for almost 15 years, the unfinished palace of the dictator-president is today overgrown by weeds.

“Many drug addicts, thieves and criminals hide out there”
For our Observer, Saint Tra Bi, an Ivorian journalist, this palace is the symbol of the scars the war has left behind. He wants to see it restored as a museum or a public building to help Liberia definitively close the chapter of this bloodstained era.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-P3M5tPoS_g









https://observers.france24.com/en/20181102-liberia-presidential-palace-ruins-samuel-doe

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Looters palace

Samuel Doe, yormie Johnson,Charles Taylor.. words on everybody's mouth in 1990.. our Ghanaian teachers Messrs Antwi and Amankwaah always had animated sordid stories about Liberia to share every morning ,to drop our jaws

mightyhaze:
Samuel Doe, yormie Johnson,Charles Taylor.. words on everybody's mouth in 1990

People who brought Liberia to ruins because of greeed

Fahdiga:
Looters palace

Seriously

wink2015:
Overgrown by vegetation, former Liberian president Samuel Doe’s residence today lies in ruins, littered with refuse and riddled with bullet holes. Our Observer Saint Tra Bi paid it a visit. Through his pictures and videos, he hoped to document the lingering scars that war has left on Liberia.

In the late 1980s Liberian president Samuel Doe built a huge presidential palace in the southeastern city of Zwedru, where he had grown up. But four months before construction was due to end, the president, who had seized power in a coup d’état in 1980, was tortured and assassinated live on television by Prince Johnson, the rebel chief and key figure of the first Liberian Civil War. It took place during a conflict that claimed 250,000 lives between 1989 and 1997, pitting Samuel Doe’s government against insurgents led by his former adviser Charles Taylor.

A vestige of the war that plunged the entire region into a spiral of violence for almost 15 years, the unfinished palace of the dictator-president is today overgrown by weeds.

“Many drug addicts, thieves and criminals hide out there”
For our Observer, Saint Tra Bi, an Ivorian journalist, this palace is the symbol of the scars the war has left behind. He wants to see it restored as a museum or a public building to help Liberia definitively close the chapter of this bloodstained era.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-P3M5tPoS_g









https://observers.france24.com/en/20181102-liberia-presidential-palace-ruins-samuel-doe

Even the most luxurious buildings in the most advanced nation is this world will one day return to nature.

What happened to all the majestic buildings in the Roman empire 1500 to 2000 years ago? The most powerful, richest and advanced nation in its time. Colonised present day France and United Kingdom.

Built with the finest marble and granite,
Majestic statues decorated with gold leaf,
Mansions and villas with heated floors & saunas,
Most advanced and mechanised military force.

All taken over by nature. Most disappeared forever. Disappeared with their language Latin that was for hundreds of years the most powerful language in the world. The language of learning and writing. Disappeared with their "powerful" Gods, prophets and temples.

All gone!

So shall everything you see today that is supposedly all powerful and dominant. They will all disappear one day and future generations will only read about them in history, and will even still doubt if such majesty truly existed as described.

This world na wash. Everything na turn by turn.

Na so world be

Vanity upon vanity, all is vanity.

No pride

Ruins

We can’t live for ever. “Every soul shall taste death “.
Similar fate awaits many of the mansions that we see today.