| January 29, 2009 | - army worms stormed villages across Liberia.
| Source:
Scientific American
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| January 23, 2008 | - Testifying before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Liberia, Milton Blayee, a.k.a. General Butt Naked, confessed to war crimes that he and his Butt Naked Battalion often committed in the nude. The born-again Christian evangelist apologized for “the killing of an innocent child and plugging out the heart which was divided into pieces for us to eat. More than 20,000 people fell victim. They were killed.”
| Source:
Telegraph
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| April 3, 2006 | - Former Liberian president Charles Taylor was caught attempting to flee Nigeria and was sent to Sierra Leone, where he pleaded not guilty to 11 counts of war crimes.
| Source:
The New York Times
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| November 11, 2005 | - Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf was elected President of Liberia, becoming the first woman elected to lead an African country.
| Source:
CNN.com
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| October 30, 2004 | - Mobs of machete-wielding Christians and Muslims were slaughtering one another in Liberia.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| June 4, 2004 | - The Special Court for Sierra Leone, a United Nations-sponsored war-crimes tribunal, opened, though the prime suspect, former Liberian dictator Charles Taylor, was enjoying political asylum in Nigeria.
| Source:
New York Times
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| August 25, 2003 | - There were reports of a massacre in the northeastern part of the country and heavy fighting between government and rebel forces.
| Source:
BBC, Daily Telegraph
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| August 25, 2003 | - One hundred fifty United States Marines, who were greeted with jubilation by Liberians 11 days ago, withdrew to their warships off the coast of Monrovia, the last helicopter trailing a Humvee that dangled in a giant sling.
| Source:
New York Times
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| August 19, 2003 | - Two groups of rebels signed a peace accord with the Liberian government; "If the war's finished, the war's finished," said General Iron Jacket, a rebel.
General Push the Button was less optimistic.
"I've been fighting for 13 years," he said.
"I'm tired.
But when you disarm someone, you should give them something for their arms."
| Source:
New York Times
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| August 15, 2003 | - Two hundred U.S. Marines landed in Liberia,
| Source:
New York Times
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| August 4, 2003 | -
Liberian civilians were starving in their homes as rebels and government fighters, some wearing women's wigs and blue painted toenails, continued to fight for control of Monrovia; a small number of Nigerian peacekeepers arrived in the country, and a United States official said that American forces would provide "communications assistance" to the peacekeepers and might even go ashore.
| Source:
Guardian, Associated Press, New York Times
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| July 21, 2003 | -
Liberians dumped mangled corpses at the U.S. embassy in Monrovia to protest the lack of American involvement in their civil war.
| Source:
CNN
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| July 2, 2003 | -
President Bush was said to be thinking about bringing peace to the people of Liberia.
| Source:
New York Times
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| June 28, 2003 | -
Kofi Annan, the secretary general of the United Nations, called for an international peacekeeping force in Liberia; President Bush called for the resignation of President Charles Taylor; Taylor invited Bush to send American troops to make peace.
| Source:
New York Times, Associated Press
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| February 13, 2001 | - Political violence continued in Afghanistan, China, Colombia, Congo, Ecuador, Guinea, Indonesia, Iran, Kashmir, Liberia, Nigeria, Palestine, the Philippines, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Zimbabwe, and elsewhere.
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