Sun Tzu's Newswire Press Release - 9753
Monday, August 18, 1997, 6:45 pm U.S. Eastern Time
Out of Africa: Butt Naked Battalion
---- by Sun Tzu's Newswire Staff
An Associated Press story by Tina Susman contributed to this piece
In Monrovia, Liberia, Joshua Milton Blahyi was General Butt Naked
during Liberia's civil war that claimed up to 200,000 lives before
the warring factions signed a peace accord.
Blahyi was hired by warlord Roosevelt Johnson. His group of drugged
and drunken teenagers entered battle in drag wearing wigs, flowered
dresses, and carrying purses.
General Butt Naked, as Blahyi has been named in press dispatches out
of Monrovia, wore only his shoes as he led his Butt Naked Battalion
into battle.
Blahyi claimed a pact with the devil at age 11 consummated a satanic
ritual. He said he was required to perform human sacrifices and go
into battle naked to ensure his safety on the battlefield.
Many of Blahyi's sacrifices were small children, some taken underwater
as they played and others simply butchered.
In 1996 Blahyi claims that God told him that he was a slave to Satan
and from that Blahyi asserts that his conversion to an evangelical
religion began.
Blahyi is now an evangelical preacher in Monrovia.
Sources: AP, Aug. 4, 1997, Tina Susman, Sun Tzu Organization files
You happen to catch the name of the Nigerian general heading the advance team sent by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to assess the situation in Monrovia? I swear, a fiction writer couldn't come up with details as bizarre as those to be found in the Liberian mess.