Word: liberian
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...said we should eat them. Even the U.N. white people - he said we could use them as pork to eat.' JOSEPH 'ZIGZAG' MARZAH, ex-death squad leader in Liberia, alleging at the war-crimes tribunal in the Hague that former Liberian President Charles Taylor - now on trial - ordered his soldiers to cannibalize the flesh of their enemies...
...Harvard Kennedy School announced yesterday that Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, the first elected female head of state in Africa, will deliver the school’s graduation speech on June 4. Johnson-Sirleaf is a 1971 graduate of the school’s Mason Fellows Program, a mid-career masters in public administration. She has served as Liberian Finance Minister and held high-level positions at Citibank, the World Bank, and the United Nations Development Programme. Kennedy School Dean David T. Ellwood ’75, who extended the formal offer, said doing so was an easy decision...
...first witness in the long-postponed trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor wasn't invited to address the alleged atrocities that engendered war crimes charges, to which Taylor has pleaded innocent. Instead, he came to talk about "conflict" or "blood" diamonds. The heart of the prosecution's case is that Taylor terrorized the people of neighboring Sierra Leone in order to appropriate its diamond wealth for his own ends. Taylor is being tried on 11 counts in a special court in The Hague, including murder, rape, mutilation, and conscripting child soldiers in neighboring Sierra Leone...
...former Liberian president looked relaxed as Canadian diamond expert Ian Smillie - one of the authors of a U.N. reports that accuses Taylor of being a gun smuggler - took the stand and told judges why he believed Taylor needed diamonds so badly. "They're very small, they're high value, they're easy to move [and] historically they've held their price very well," explained Smillie. "In the 1990s, the period we're talking about, they were an alternative to hard currency in countries where there was no hard currency or where people wanted to hide the movement of money...
...There is the case of Graham Greene, who after Balliol chose not to join his family business. After an uninspiring spell in journalism, he decided to go into the Liberian interior. At the time Liberia was a large white space on the map marked “cannibals...