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Foreign Affairs › Re: A President That Was Severely Totured Before Been Killed [pics] by YoungestMuller(op): 12:46am On Jun 16, 2015

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Foreign Affairs › Re: A President That Was Severely Totured Before Been Killed [pics] by YoungestMuller(op): 12:25am On Jun 16, 2015*

New constitution and 1985 elections
A draft constitution providing for a
multi-party republic was issued in 1983 and approved by referendum in 1984.
On July 26, 1984, Doe was elected
President of the Interim National Assembly. [9] He had a new constitution approved by referendum in 1984 and went on to stage a presidential election on October 15, 1985. According to
official figures, Doe won 51% of the vote—just enough to avoid a runoff. The NDPL won 21 of the 26 Senate seats
and 51 of the 64 seats in the House of Representatives. However, most of the elected opposition candidates refused
to take their seats. The election was heavily rigged; Doe
had the ballots taken to a secret
location and 50 of his own handpicked
staff counted them. Foreign observers
declared the elections fraudulent and
suggested that runner-up Jackson Doe of the Liberian Action Party had actually won. Also, prior to the election he had more than 50 of his political opponents murdered. It is also alleged that he changed his official birth date from 1951 to 1950 in order to meet the
new constitution's requirement that the president be at least 35 years old. Doe was formally sworn in on January 6,
1986.
.
Increased repression
Gen. Thomas Quiwonkpa, who had been a leader of the 1980 coup along with Doe, attempted to seize power on November 12, 1985; the attempt failed after fighting in Monrovia in which Quiwonkpa was killed. Doe's corrupt
and repressive government became even more repressive after the attempted coup, shutting down newspapers and banning political activity. The government's mistreatment of certain ethnic groups, particularly the Gio (or Dan) and the Mano in the north (Quiwonkpa was an
ethnic Gio), resulted in divisions and
violence among indigenous populations who until then had coexisted relatively peacefully.
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Murder
Charles Taylor, a former ally of Doe's, crossed into Liberia from Ivory Coast on December 24, 1989, to wage a guerrilla war against Doe. Taylor had broken out of a jail in the United States, where he
was awaiting extradition to Liberia on charges of embezzlement. The conflict quickly flared into full-fledged civil war. By mid-1990, most of Liberia was
controlled by rebel factions. Doe was captured in Monrovia by faction leader Prince Y. Johnson on September 9, 1990. Doe had been
visiting ECOMOG peacekeeping headquarters in Monrovia when
Johnson arrived with his forces and
seized Doe after a bloody gun battle.
Doe was taken to Johnson's military
base and tortured before being killed and exposed naked in the streets of Monrovia. His ears were cut off, then some of his fingers and toes; his body was later exhumed and reburied. The spectacle of his torture was videotaped
and seen on news reports around the world. The video shows Johnson sipping a Budweiser as Doe's ear is cut off.
Pic 1. Samuel Doe being totured naked before execution
Pic 2. His remains being carry away by the military
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Source - https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Samuel_Doe

Foreign Affairs › Re: A President That Was Severely Totured Before Been Killed [pics] by YoungestMuller(op): 12:16am On Jun 16, 2015*

Theories on the genesis of the coup
In August 2008, before a Truth and
Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in
Monrovia, Doe's former justice minister,
Councillor Chea Cheapoo — who contested the 2011 Liberia Presidential
elections — alleged the American CIA had provided the map of the Executive
Mansion, enabling the rebels to break
into it; that it was a white American CIA
agent who shot and killed Tolbert; and
that the Americans "were responsible for Liberia’s nightmare".[5] However, the next day, before the same TRC,
another former Minister of Samuel Doe,
Dr. Boima Fahnbulleh, testified that "the
Americans did not support the coup led by Mr. Doe".[6] Some facts of the 1980 coup are still
clouded by reports of an "Unknown Soldier".[citation needed] It is reported that an "unknown soldier" was one of
the "white" mercenaries who would
have staged the 1980 military takeover
of the century-old one-party state.
According to the autobiography of
Tolbert's wife Victoria, the First Lady witnessed a masked man with a
"white" hand stabbing her late husband.
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Presidency
During his rule, Doe portrayed himself
as an enlightened leader whose actions were intended to bring "relief to many". He styled himself "Dr. Doe" starting in 1982, after making a state visit to Chun Doo-hwan in South Korea and being awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Seoul.[2] After seven years of calling himself a doctor, Doe
announced in 1989 that he had
completed a bachelor's degree from the University of Liberia.[8]
.
Relations with the United States
[Pic Below] -
Doe with then Secretary of Defense of the United States Caspar W. Weinberger outside the Pentagon in 1982
During his first years in office, Doe
openly supported U.S. Cold War foreign policy in Africa during the 1980s,
severing diplomatic relations between
Liberia and the Soviet Union. The United States valued Liberia as an
important ally during the Cold War, as it
helped to contain the spread of Soviet influence in Africa.[citation needed] As part of the expanding relationship, Doe
agreed to a modification of the mutual
defense pact granting staging rights on
24-hour notice at Liberia's sea and
airports for the U.S. Rapid Deployment Forces, which were established to respond swiftly to security threats
around the world.

Foreign Affairs › Re: A President That Was Severely Totured Before Been Killed [pics] by YoungestMuller(op): 12:08am On Jun 16, 2015*

1980 coup, new government
Commanding a group of Krahn soldiers,
Master Sergeant Samuel Doe led a military coup on 12 April 1980 by attacking the Liberian Executive
Mansion and killing President William R. Tolbert, Jr. Twenty-six of Tolbert's supporters were also killed in the
fighting. Thirteen members of the
Cabinet were publicly executed ten
days later. Shortly after the coup,
government ministers were walked
publicly around Monrovia in the nude and then summarily executed by a firing squad on the beach.[3] Hundreds of government workers fled the
country, while others were imprisoned. After the coup, Doe assumed the rank
of general and established a People's
Redemption Council (PRC) composed of
himself and 14 other low-ranking
officers to rule the country. The early
days of the regime were marked by mass executions of members of
Tolbert's deposed government. One of
Doe's first acts after seizing power was
to order the release of about 50 leaders
of the opposition Progressive People's Party who had been jailed by Tolbert during the rice riots of the previous
month. Shortly after that, Doe ordered
the arrest of 91 officials of the Tolbert
regime. Within days, 11 former
members of Tolbert's cabinet, including
his brother Frank, were brought to trial to answer charges of "high treason, rampant corruption and gross violation of human rights."[4] Suspension of the Constitution allowed these trials to be
conducted by a Commission appointed
by the state's new military leadership,
with defendants being refused both legal representation and trial by jury, virtually ensuring their conviction. Thus ended 133 years of Americo-
Liberian political domination. Some
hailed the coup as the first time since
Liberia's establishment as a country
that it was governed by people of
native African descent instead of by the Americo-Liberian elite, although
persons with no Americo-Liberian
heritage had held the Vice Presidency
(Henry Too Wesley), as well as Ministerial and Legislative positions in
years prior. Many people welcomed
Doe's takeover as a shift favoring the
majority of the population that had
largely been excluded from
participation in government since the establishment of the country. However,
the new government, led by the leaders
of the coup d'état and calling itself the People's Redemption Council (PRC), lacked experience and was ill prepared
to rule. Doe became head of state and
suspended the constitution, but
promised a return to civilian rule by
1985.
Doe (Center) holding a walkie-talkie,
alongside the other conspirators after
the 1980 Coup

Foreign Affairs › Re: A President That Was Severely Totured Before Been Killed [pics] by YoungestMuller(op): 12:02am On Jun 16, 2015

Early life
Doe was born in Tuzon, a small village in Grand Gedeh County.[1] At the age of sixteen, he finished elementary school
and enrolled at a Baptist junior high
school in Zwedru. Two years later, he enlisted in the Armed Forces of Liberia, hoping thereby to obtain a scholarship
to a high school in Kakata, but instead he was assigned to military duties. Over
the next ten years, he was assigned to
a range of duty stations, including
education at a military school and
commanding an assortment of
garrisons and prisons in Monrovia. He finally completed high school by correspondence. Doe was promoted to the grade of master sergeant on 11 October 1979 and made an
administrator for the Third Battalion in
Monrovia, which position he occupied for eleven months.[2]

Foreign Affairs › A President That Was Severely Totured Before Been Killed [pics] by YoungestMuller(op): 12:01am On Jun 16, 2015*

Samuel Kanyon Doe (May 6, 1951 – September 9, 1990) was the leader of Liberia from 1980 to 1990. He served as chairman of the People's Redemption Council and de facto head of state after staging a violent coup d'etat in 1980 where he killed the previous leader, William R. Tolbert, Jr., and executed many of his supporters. The constitution
was disbanded and headed the
country's military junta for the next five years. In 1985 he ordered an election
as previously promised and officially
became the 21st President of Liberia, despite heavy controversy sparked by
evidence of election fraud. Nevertheless, he enjoyed decisive
support from the United States thanks to the strategic anti-Soviet stance he had taken in the Cold War. He was the first indigenous head of state in Liberian
history. Doe was a member of the rural Krahn tribe from inland Liberia. The Krahn people are a minority ethnic group but,
like the majority of Liberians, they are
of indigenous descent. Liberians of
indigenous descent were historically
faced with economic and political
marginalization by the Americo-Liberian elites, who were descended from the
free-born and formerly enslaved blacks
from America who founded Liberia in
1847. Under Doe, Liberian ports were opened
to Canadian, Chinese and European ships, which brought in considerable
foreign investment from foreign
shipping firms and earned Liberia a
reputation as a tax haven . Doe attempted to legitimize his regime
with a new constitution in 1984 and elections in 1985. However, opposition to his rule only increased, especially
after the 1985 elections which were
declared to be fraudulent by foreign
observers, except the US which
supported the Doe regime. In the late
1980s, as fiscal austerity took hold in the United States and the threat of
Communism declined with the waning
of the Cold War, the U.S. became
disenchanted with entrenched
corruption in Doe's government and
began cutting off critical foreign aid to Doe. This, combined with the popular
anger generated by Doe's favoritism
toward his native Krahn tribe, placed
him in a very precarious position. A civil war began in December 1989, when rebels entered Liberia through Côte d'Ivoire with the intent of capturing Doe. He was captured and overthrown
on 9 September 1990. Following his
capture, he was tortured before being
executed.

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Jokes Etc › Check Out This Breath Taking Coincidence by YoungestMuller(op): 3:23pm On Jun 13, 2015

When Sweden and Denmark play
each other, the letters used for the
teams are SWE vs DEN. The remaining
letters not used are DEN vs MARK.

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Romance › Re: TOP Songs That U Can Use To Toast Girls. by YoungestMuller(m): 8:27am On Jun 12, 2015*

Seriki - Agbalumo ...
.
Jason Durelo - Wiggle ...
.
Olamide - Story for the gods ...
.
Usher Raymond - Good Kisser ...

Romance › Re: TOP Songs That U Can Use To Toast Girls. by YoungestMuller(m): 8:24am On Jun 12, 2015

Jokes Etc › Re: Help!!what Should He Do? by YoungestMuller(m): 10:43pm On Jun 11, 2015

Return it and make him realise wat a real man really means

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Science/Technology › Re: Throw Back: How To Activate Mtn Bbc Unlimited Monthly Subscription With Just N50 by YoungestMuller(m): 10:28pm On Jun 11, 2015

**oya Kasali carry car key make we waka go testing ground**... Feedback loading 50%...

Celebrities › Re: Check Out The Nigeria Entertainment Awards 2015 Full Nominations List by YoungestMuller(m): 10:20pm On Jun 11, 2015

sumtin's fishy bouh dis over-obvious list

Politics › Re: Why Rivers Assembly Should Immediately Sack All LG Chairmen - Charlesphc by YoungestMuller(m): 10:08pm On Jun 11, 2015

Nairaland General › Why Do We Shout When Angry - A Sermon For The Hot Tempered by YoungestMuller(op): 9:48pm On Jun 11, 2015

A Professor was teaching about
Proverbs 15:1. He asked his students,
'why do we shout in anger? Why do
people shout at each other when they
are upset?' The students thought for
awhile. One said, because we lose our calm. But why shout when the other
person is just next to you? Asked the
professor. Isn't it possible to speak to
him or her with a soft voice? Why do you
shout at a person when you are angry?
The students gave some answers but none satisfied the Professor. Finally he
explained, 'when two people are angry
at each other, there is a distance in their
hearts psychologically . To cover the distance, they must shout to be able to
hear each other. The angrier they
are,the stronger they will shout to hear
each other through that great distance.
Then the Professor asked, 'What
happens when two people fall in love? They don't shout at each other but talk
softly. Why? Because their hearts are
psychologically close. The distance between them is very close. The
Professor continued, 'When they love
each other even more, what happens?
They don't speak, only whisper and they
even get closer to each other in their
love. Finally they even need not whisper, they only look at each other
and that's all.....So next time you shout
on a loved one, know that you are
creating distance between your heart
and that person’s heart. Proverbs 15:1
says a gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
PLS SHARE, U may be healing a hot
tempered person today...Enjoy every
moment. "Life is easy"

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Literature › Re: Random Campus True Life Stories . by YoungestMuller(m): 4:45pm On May 28, 2015

following

Politics › Re: Fashola Declares May 27 Every Year As Lagos Day(daily Independent) by YoungestMuller(m): 4:37pm On May 28, 2015

Nairaland General › Re: Joke Apart, Who Is The Most Handsome Guy In Nairaland? by YoungestMuller(m): 4:36pm On May 28, 2015

Dating And Meet-up Zone › Re: Wherever You Are Joycelyn, I Am So Sorry. by YoungestMuller(m): 4:29pm On May 28, 2015

***opens gate without knocking*** Silence!!! Don't U realise this is a GRA huh

Politics › Re: Advantages Of Fuel Scarcity In Nigeria So Far by YoungestMuller(m): 4:19pm On May 28, 2015

Land . . . . . For . . . . . Sale

Politics › Re: Preparations In Its Final Stages At The Eagles Square Ahead Of The Handover.pics by YoungestMuller(m): 4:15pm On May 28, 2015*

TTC

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Career › Re: When You're Being Paid For Doing Virtually Nothing: The Meaning? by YoungestMuller(m): 3:48pm On May 26, 2015

KILANTA!!! Abeg dem still dey show that series?

Jokes Etc › Re: Joke Of The Evening by YoungestMuller(m): 6:43pm On May 25, 2015

U post an old copied joke nd U expect us to laugh!!! Ar U a senseless loony?

Jokes Etc › When Your Pastor Tells You You're Annointed by YoungestMuller(op): 4:43pm On May 25, 2015

that moment when your pastor declare that anytin u touch shall surely be blessed

Jokes Etc › Re: Funny Fuel Scarcity Pictures....... by YoungestMuller(m): 4:39pm On May 25, 2015

when it seems the spirit is moving in U

Jokes Etc › Re: When You Manage To On Your Generator And Your Neighborhood Finds Out by YoungestMuller(m): 4:24pm On May 25, 2015

And when the fuel runs down

Jokes Etc › Re: See What A Comedian Wore To A Show by YoungestMuller(op): 2:15pm On May 16, 2015

simplymade:
No pics?

Modifed

Jokes Etc › See What A Comedian Wore To A Show by YoungestMuller(op): 2:11pm On May 16, 2015

what is your take on this dressing of Comedian TopSecret? I think his dresscode is already capable of making audience laugh deir lungs out

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