By Mark Huband
The civil battle in 1989 promised freedom from ten years of vicious dictatorship as an alternative the seeds of Liberias devastation have been sown. Mark Hubands account of the clash is a portrayal of the struggle because it spread out, drawing at the authors adventure of residing among the warring parties.
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They dumped them down at the lake, just across the bridge past the mission. Can’t say I’m very keen to see them myself. You should go and call in on the brothers while you’re here,’ she told us as she pulled away, and the three laughing nuns waved frantically at us from the passenger seats. The sun was hot. It was mid-afternoon. Sergeant Kpue disappeared and we never saw him again. We walked down the main street. A tall, smartly dressed man of around thirty walked up to us and said he was the Saniquellie correspondent of 10 Soldiers Priests , and Beer Money the national news agency, LINA.
We went through town to the offices of the press union, and had the document supplied by the signed just before dusk. to it, was about brown suit told us to wait in his office minister. He ‘Now,’ he on The Ministry of Information, when we returned The white Mercedes was still there. Inside the to close. said, peering over his desk. ’ his desk, right there, He patted the forms within sight of the Executive Mansion, the corridor from the minister. forms. while he took the forms into the then returned five minutes later with the forms signed.
By government decree 2a, issued in 1982, students hospital return, however, 18 A Prize for the Gambler were banned from all activities which ‘directly or indirectly impinge, interfere with or cast aspersion upon the activities, programmes or policies of the People’s Redemption Council’. Doe, illiterate, greedy and above all totally without real authority over his pack of scheming ministers, was powerless to control the avarice of his regime. Meanwhile he complained about his poverty, relative to his billionaire fellow-members of the club of African dictators.
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