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| Tony Could not understand Ellen ... Source: guardian.co.uk, |
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Nobel peace prize winner defends law criminalising homosexuality in Liberia
Saturday, March 3, 2012
Monday, February 20, 2012
‘Significant’ Oil Discovery in Liberia!!
Written by Rodney D. Sieh
Source: Front Page Africa
Monrovia - After decades of trying to find the elusive fossil fuel known around the world as black gold, Liberia finally hit pay dirt when African Petroleum Company, an Australian-British Company announced late Monday night that it has discovered commercial quantities of oil in Liberia. Sources at the National Oil Company of Liberia (NOCAL) have confirmed the discovery which was announced by the Australian Stock Exchange.
‘Significant Discovery’
The discovery by African Petroleum Corporation Limited was reportedly made at Narina--‐1 well, offshore Block LB--‐09.
Source: Front Page Africa
‘Significant Discovery’
The discovery by African Petroleum Corporation Limited was reportedly made at Narina--‐1 well, offshore Block LB--‐09.
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
George Boley ordered to leave U.S.
George Boley has 30 days to appeal a ruling that will send him home to Liberia labeled as a war criminal. / Jamie Germano file photo 2007
Longtime Clarkson resident George Boley Sr. will likely be returning to his home country of Liberia — this time branded a war criminal and deported by the United States.
A date has not been set for the deportation, mandated by an immigration judge's ruling Monday that Boley, 62, was responsible for killings during Liberia's civil wars and that he also recruited children as soldiers during the bloody bedlam.
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| George Boley, right, joined Charles Taylor, left, and Alhaji Kromah in a September 1995 gathering of Liberian leaders to take an oath to respect a peace process that was signed in August. / Christophe Simon/Getty |
A date has not been set for the deportation, mandated by an immigration judge's ruling Monday that Boley, 62, was responsible for killings during Liberia's civil wars and that he also recruited children as soldiers during the bloody bedlam.
Monday, February 6, 2012
Operation We Care for Liberia welcomes George Boley Sr. deportation to Liberia
We welcome the decision of the United States Immigration to deport Mr. George Boley Sr. to Liberia.
We at this time call upon the Liberian Government through its justice department to bring Mr. Boley and others to justice for crimes they committed during the course of Liberia's Civil War.
Monday, November 28, 2011
Liberia: Massacre, Summary Execution, and Other Gruesome Acts From 1990-2003
Liberia: Massacre, Summary Execution, and Other Gruesome Acts From 1990-2003
COURTESY OF THE FORUM FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A WAR CRIMES COURT IN LIBERIA
Re-published by:
Bernard Gbayee Goah, President
Operation We Care for Liberia
Email: goahbg@gmail.com
Note to readers:
Gen. Moses Wright of the AFL was contacted by Bernard Gbayee Goah to verify allegations that are brought up against him in the below cyber list that is circulated by a group named "Forum For The Establishment of A War Crimes Court in Liberia" on 8/27/2015". Based on the phone conversation between Gen. Wright and Bernard Goah, Gen. Wright alleged that he was not in Monrovia BTC in June of 1990. Therefore, he could not have part took in atrocities that were committed during that time. Others have also testified that the General was not involved in the BTC Massacre that took place when 27 Gio and Mano families that were members of the AFL and residing at the BTC barracks were allegedly killed.
But Liberia’s TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION
Re-published by:
Bernard Gbayee Goah, President
Operation We Care for Liberia
Email: goahbg@gmail.com
Note to readers:
Gen. Moses Wright of the AFL was contacted by Bernard Gbayee Goah to verify allegations that are brought up against him in the below cyber list that is circulated by a group named "Forum For The Establishment of A War Crimes Court in Liberia" on 8/27/2015". Based on the phone conversation between Gen. Wright and Bernard Goah, Gen. Wright alleged that he was not in Monrovia BTC in June of 1990. Therefore, he could not have part took in atrocities that were committed during that time. Others have also testified that the General was not involved in the BTC Massacre that took place when 27 Gio and Mano families that were members of the AFL and residing at the BTC barracks were allegedly killed.
But Liberia’s TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION
Consolidated Final Report Volume II, Page 219 says:
"June 1990: Massacre of 27 Gio and Mano family
members of the AFL by Moses Thomas, Moses Wright, James Chelly and George Dweh;
reportedly under orders of Samuel Doe."
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Speak Out! Do Something!!! Liberia Needs you!!!!
Unlike Sierra Leone, Rwanda and other countries where in the post-conflict period maximum attention has been given to tackling the root causes of the violence in order to ensure deterrence; Liberia, on the other hand, has done just the opposite. Those who orchestrated the mayhem are now ruling the country and dictating the pace of reconciliation. This is no way to restore peace following a brutal war where more than 250,000 civilians were murdered and almost the entire population uprooted.
Also, while these very mayhem orchestrators are a tiny minority having more than enough to live comfortably, the vast majority of the population has nothing to live for; it is impossible for there to be sustainable peace. The vast majority of Liberians live on less than one dollar a day; undoubtedly, there is a need for change in the way Liberia is governed. As we can all see today, Liberia’s just ended elections has produced a grieve cause for concern. Liberia is about to turn yet again into a one-party state, knowing full well this produces dictatorship, dictatorship causes rebellion; rebellion leads to war; and war means bloodshed!!! Evil has overtaken Liberia and is again prepared to destroy everything in sight.
We want you to think about what is about to happen in that part of the world.
Join Operation We Care for Liberia today and become an agent of positive change. Stand for justice in Liberia! Let those who caused the deaths of over 250,000 innocent people not be allowed to walk freely. Speak out because this is the right thing to do!!!
Bernard Gbayee Goah
President, Operation We Care for Liberia Email: goahbg@gmail..com
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Liberia: What Happened in Liberia?
Michael Keating
Not many people care about what goes on in Liberia but those that do were probably shocked this week by the images of UN Peacekeepers trying to wrestle guns away from the Liberian National Police who were intent on shooting into a crowd that was rallying in opposition to Tuesday's Presidential election.
- Analysis
Not many people care about what goes on in Liberia but those that do were probably shocked this week by the images of UN Peacekeepers trying to wrestle guns away from the Liberian National Police who were intent on shooting into a crowd that was rallying in opposition to Tuesday's Presidential election.
Monday, November 14, 2011
Liberia: Operation We Care for Liberia calls on President Obama to step in!
Operation We Care for Liberia
calls on President Obama to step in!
calls on President Obama to step in!
Sunday, November 13, 2011
CDC Tubman’s Speech: Bloody Monday Was an Assassination Attempt
November 12, 2011
ADRESS TO THE NATION REGARDING “CDC MASSACRE DAY” AND November POLLS
My Fellow Liberians;
Let us observe a few seconds of silence for those killed at our headquarters on Monday, November 7, 2011 (“CDC Massacre Day”) by members of the Emergency Response Unit (ERU) and Police Support Unit (PSU) of the Liberian National Police. Thank you for observing the silence.
What occurred in our compound on Monday, I am convinced, was an assassination attempt on my life and that of my Vice Standard Bearer. This is because for more than an hour on that day, our partisans were gathered on the street in front of the Lone Star Cell Company on Tubman Boulevard and the ERU and PSU did nothing until shortly after I arrived, together with my Vice Standard Bearer. A few minutes after, we were approached by a Nigerian General of the UNMIL contingent who admonished us to turn around and go back into our compound because he feared what awaited us down the road and further in town by the ERU and PSU. While listening to the General’s advice, we came under attack by the ERU and PSU who began heavily tear gassing us. They followed us into our compound and began shooting live bullets at the crowd.
ADRESS TO THE NATION REGARDING “CDC MASSACRE DAY” AND November POLLS
My Fellow Liberians;
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CDC Standard bearer
Winston Tubman, a CDC supporter shot in the head by Liberian police |
What occurred in our compound on Monday, I am convinced, was an assassination attempt on my life and that of my Vice Standard Bearer. This is because for more than an hour on that day, our partisans were gathered on the street in front of the Lone Star Cell Company on Tubman Boulevard and the ERU and PSU did nothing until shortly after I arrived, together with my Vice Standard Bearer. A few minutes after, we were approached by a Nigerian General of the UNMIL contingent who admonished us to turn around and go back into our compound because he feared what awaited us down the road and further in town by the ERU and PSU. While listening to the General’s advice, we came under attack by the ERU and PSU who began heavily tear gassing us. They followed us into our compound and began shooting live bullets at the crowd.
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Liberia's Tubman wants disputed presidential poll annulled
By Fran Blandy | AFP
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| Winston Tubman |
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| Ellen Johnson Sirleaf |
Tubman's boycott raised tensions in the west African nation, whose second-post war poll had been billed as a chance to cement its fragile democracy eight years after a 14-year conflict that killed 250,000 ended.
Political tensions turned bloody on the eve of Tuesday's election when police fired live bullets into a crowd of opposition protesters gathered for an unauthorised march amid a hail of stone-throwing and tear gas.
Tubman said Tuesday's vote was "a political farce of the highest order and must not be allowed to stand."
"As we speak our lawyers are busy working on all our legal options," he told reporters, reading from a prepared statement after consultation with the Congress for Democratic Change.
"We believe everything that flows from Tuesday's elections must be annulled and a new round of elections scheduled in a month. We will not recognise the so-called win of Mrs Sirleaf," he added.
On Friday, Tubman had said that while his party would not recognise the results he was "prepared to heal the wounds of this country and to unite our country.
"Since Mrs Sirleaf will now claim she is the president and is recognised by the international community, we have to find a way to work with her and I believe it is not beyond our ability to find a way for that to happen," he had said.
On Saturday however, in an apparent about-turn, he slammed Sirleaf's Unity Party as "election hijackers".
And he repeated his assertion that Monday's shooting at CDC headquarters had been an attempt by Sirleaf's forces to assassinate him. AFP journalists saw two bodies with gunshot wounds to the head.
No official toll has been released, and while Tubman said earlier up to eight may have been killed, he now says three are confirmed dead with many reports of CDC supporters missing.
The 70-year old former UN diplomat pulled out of the race claiming "massive fraud in the tabulation process" in the first round. He brushed aside international observer's assertions the poll was free and fair.
"Elections are won by votes and not strengths of political endorsement from observers," he said.
The National Electoral Commission on Friday confirmed Nobel Peace Prize winner Sirleaf the landslide winner in polls with 90 percent of votes to Tubman's 9.4 percent.
However Tubman pointed to the low turnout of 38 percent -- attributed to the boycott and fears of further violence -- as proof Sirleaf did not have wide support and that she had doctored the vote.
"They have now announced some highly inflated figures giving president Sirleaf a victory, or as she calls it, a renewed mandate ... What mandate can this flawed process give her? What mandate did she ever have in the first place?"
Tubman referred to 2005 elections when his running mate, former AC Milan football star George Weah took on Sirleaf in the first polls after the end of a brutal 14-year war in 2003.
In a first round of voting Sirleaf lost to Weah but came back to narrowly beat him in the second. Weah, who at the time had not finished high school, was criticised for his lack of education and administrative experience.
The CDC cried foul, despite observers saying the process was free and fair. Weah later withdrew his claims and accepted the results, but the party still feels it was cheated.
This time round the party thought that with the dream team of Harvard-trained Tubman and the crowd-pleasing Weah as his running mate they were sure to win.
Sirleaf on Friday called for national reconciliation and announced an independent commission would probe Monday's shooting which Tubman rejected as full of "partisans and friends of the president."
Sirleaf also named fellow Nobel Peace Prize laureate, women's right activist Leymah Gbowee, to lead a new peace and reconciliation initiative to heal the divisions in the country.
Friday, November 11, 2011
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Liberia's Sirleaf wins 90 pct in boycotted vote
By JONATHAN PAYE-LAYLEH and RUKMINI CALLIMACHI - Associated Press
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| Ellen Johnson Sirleaf |
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Press Statement on current situation in Liberia
Operation We Care for Liberia (OWCL)
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| Bernard Gbayee Goah President, Operation We Care for Liberia (503) 333 6246 |
According to AFP news, during a protest called by Opposition Leader Winston Tubman on Monday, at least four of his supporters were shot dead following clashes that broke out with the Liberian riot police when the rally was prevented from turning into a march. A radio and television station owned by opposition and three other radios were shut down overnight following the violence. "Right after our evening broadcast police came and asked us to leave the premises of the station and closed it down," said Samukai Dukulay, senior broadcaster at Power television and Power FM. Liberia's opposition had complained that the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Sirleaf days before the first round was tantamount to foreign interference in the elections.
Sirleaf poised for reelection in tense Liberia vote
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| Sirleaf |
Liberia's Nobel-crowned president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was poised to win a second term Tuesday in a run-off marked by low turnout following a deadly shooting and her rival's boycott call. Amnesty International called for a shooting in which four opposition supporters were killed Monday to be probed, casting the shadow of Liberia's bloody past over the west African country's second post-war polls.
Liberia Tense as Presidential Runoff Vote Starts
Source: The New York Times
MONROVIA, Liberia — Turnout appeared to be light as polls opened in a presidential runoff amid calls for a boycott of the vote and after a night of violence here that left at least one person dead as police battled opposition supporters.
The runoff between President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, this year’s Nobel Peace Prize laureate and darling of the West, and the challenger, Winston Tubman, who called for supporters to boycott the vote amid accusations of fraud in the first round, may spell trouble for Liberia.
The runoff between President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, this year’s Nobel Peace Prize laureate and darling of the West, and the challenger, Winston Tubman, who called for supporters to boycott the vote amid accusations of fraud in the first round, may spell trouble for Liberia.
Bloodied Polls: Liberia Runoff Elections Producing Low Turnout; Media Shutdown
Written by Rodney D. Sieh, Rodney.sieh@frontpageafricaonline.com; David B. Kolleh, david.kolleh@frontpageafricaonline.com Wade C.L.Williams
Source: Front Page Africa
Monrovia - Two hours after the polling precinct at the C.D.B. King school on Clay Street opened Tuesday, fifty persons had cast their ballots.
With a total number of 200 registered voters at the precinct, turnout here was low as voting in Liberia’s run-off presidential elections got underway.
Many of those standing in line to vote pointed the blame to the violent turn which dampened the mood Monday, killing one person and injuring several others.
Voters ‘coming in drops’
Source: Front Page Africa
With a total number of 200 registered voters at the precinct, turnout here was low as voting in Liberia’s run-off presidential elections got underway.
Many of those standing in line to vote pointed the blame to the violent turn which dampened the mood Monday, killing one person and injuring several others.
Voters ‘coming in drops’
Liberian presidential polls open despite boycott
By JONATHAN PAYE-LAYLEH and RUKMINI CALLIMACHI - Associated Press
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Liberia riot police walk in a street near the
headquarters of the opposition Congress for Democratic Change (CDC) party in Monrovia. A man was killed in the Liberian capital when an opposition rally turned |
The presidential election is the first being organized by the Liberian government rather than by the United Nations since the end of the country's horrific civil war eight years ago.
Monday, November 7, 2011
Five Liberians Killed, 25 Injured in Pre-Election Violence In Monrovia
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| CDC partisans in a peaceful gathering in Monrovia |
By: T. Ralph Tolbert
Source: The Liberian Journal
Five Liberians were reportedly killed and more than 25 injured after violent broke out at the headquarters of the main opposition party--Congress for Democratic Change--on the eve of the Nov. 8 run-off presidential election.
Friday, November 4, 2011
Liberia challenger says won't take part in run-off
By Alphonso Toweh
Winston Tubman said on Friday that he would not take part in Liberia's planned November 8 presidential run-off vote against President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, but the election commission said a vote would take place anyway.
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| Winston Tubman |
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