Posted on 03/13/2008 3:01:25 PM PDT by camerakid400
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) -- Grim tales of cannibalism highlighting the brutality of West Africa's civil wars emerged in testimony Thursday at the war crimes trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor.
Joseph "Zigzag" Marzah, who described himself as Taylor's chief of operations and head of the death squad before Taylor became president, said African peacekeepers and even United Nations personnel were killed and eaten on the battlefield by Taylor's militiamen.
Prosecutors described Marzah as a key witness with inside knowledge of the former Liberian president's operations in Liberia and neighboring Sierra Leone, where he is accused of responsibility for the widespread murder, rape and amputations committed by soldiers loyal to him.
Taylor, 59, has pleaded not guilty to 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity. He is accused of orchestrating violence in Sierra Leone's civil war, which ended in 2002, and trading in illegally mined diamonds to finance the conflict.
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Monsters are real.
Obama has vowed he will bring the troops home, dismantle the military and rebuild Africa.
I think they aught to just go to heck over there and rule - so far, the vast majority of African countries that have fallen to Black rulers have fast degenerated into genocide - black on black.
They need you, Obama. WE don't
It’s horrible and gruesome to think about, especially in this day and age but many cultures would cannabalize enemies in war as they believed the would gain their strength from doing so. It makes me sick to think about it but it’s not anything new.
I recall a time in the 60’s when the world was “modern” and stories of savage natives cannabalizing their victims were decades old tales of a time before civilization had reached even the most remote corners of the world.
Hah! And thank you Moscow for getting the world to fight “colonialism”.
where is the African diaspora?
Where is Sharpton and Farrakahn and Jesse?
If you are an American who is a descendant of African slaves, and you don’t wake up everyday and thank God your ancestors were dragged here in chains, you are a fool.
B. Hussein Obama’s black racist minister says Africa is the cradle of civilization.
B. Hussein Obama’s black racist minister says Africa is the cradle of civilization.
Having people for dinner?
Confused about what wine to serve?
Of course.
Very profound.... My ancestors were poor, Irish, German, Polish etc.. And I thank God everyday that they gave up everything to come to America.
I do the same.
Black humor, eh?
Serving his fellow man- al tartar
Sharpton and Jesse are up newly elected governor of NY Pattersons butt and Farrukan is up Obama’s. THESE RACISTS, BIGOTS ARE NOT INTERESTED IN SOMETHING THAT CAN’T MAKE THEM MONEY QUICK!
Settlers from America
In 1822, the American Colonization Society established Liberia as a place to send freed African-American slaves. [5] African-Americans gradually immigrated to the colony and became known as Americo-Liberians, where many present day Liberians trace their ancestry. On July 26, 1847, the Americo-Liberian settlers declared the independence of the Republic of Liberia.
The settlers regarded Africa as a “Promised Land”, but they did not integrate into an African society. Once in Africa, they referred to themselves as “Americans” and were recognized as such by local Africans and by British colonial authorities in neighbouring Sierra Leone. The symbols of their state — its flag, motto, and seal — and the form of government that they chose reflected their American background and diaspora experience. Lincoln University (founded as Ashmun Institute for educating young blacks in Pennsylvania in 1854) played an important role in supplying Americo-Liberians leadership for the new Nation. The first graduating class of Lincoln University, James R. Amos, his brother Thomas H. Amos, and Armistead Miller sailed for Liberia on the brig Mary C. Stevens in April, 1859 after graduation.
The religious practices, social customs and cultural standards of the Americo-Liberians had their roots in the antebellum American South. These ideals strongly influenced the attitudes of the settlers toward the indigenous African people. The new nation, as they perceived it, was coextensive with the settler community and with those Africans who were assimilated into it. Mutual mistrust and hostility between the “Americans” along the coast and the “Natives” of the interior was a recurrent theme in the country’s history, along with (usually successful) attempts by the Americo-Liberian minority to dominate the what they identified to be savage native peoples. They named the land “Liberia,” which in the Romance languages, and in Latin in particular, means “Land of the Free,” as an homage to their freedom from slavery.
Joseph Jenkins Roberts, First President of Liberia
Historically, Liberia has enjoyed the support and unofficial cooperation of the United States government [6]. Liberia’s government, modeled after that of the United States, was democratic in structure, if not always in substance. After 1877 the True Whig Party monopolized political power in the country, and competition for office was usually contained within the party, whose nomination virtually ensured election. Two problems confronting successive administrations were pressure from neighboring colonial powers, Britain and France, and the threat of financial insolvency, both of which challenged the country’s sovereignty. Liberia retained its independence during the Scramble for Africa, but lost its claim to extensive territories that were annexed by Britain and France. Economic development was retarded by the decline of markets for Liberian goods in the late nineteenth century and by indebtedness on a series of loans, payments on which drained the economy.
It sounds like they have finally “integrated” into African culture.
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