Word: monrovia
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...death came after he abandoned his fortified presidential mansion, where he had been bunkered since rebels captured most of Monrovia in June. He paid an unexpected visit to the headquarters of the five-nation peacekeeping force that had been sent into Liberia by its West African neighbors. There is speculation that Doe was seeking safe passage out of the country or that he may have been there to scold Lieut. General Arnold Quainoo, the Ghanaian commander of the peacekeeping force, for not paying him a courtesy call at the presidential mansion...
Shells exploded and gunfire crackled in Monrovia through most of Monday as Johnson's troops hunted down the fragmented remains of Doe's army, which was almost entirely made up of Krahn, one of the two main ethnic groups that are involved in the fighting. Doe was a Krahn, while Johnson and Taylor are aligned with the Gio tribe. More than 5,000 Liberians have been slaughtered by the three factions, often because of tribal affiliations...
...representatives met in Ghana to select an interim government for Liberia, to be led by Amos Sawyer, a political scientist who in 1984 drafted the country's present constitution. Both Nimley and Johnson have indicated their willingness to turn power over to Sawyer once he has been installed in Monrovia...
...climax of 17th century Spain's greatest tragedy, as oppressed villagers hack to shreds their tyrannical overlord, trashing his palace and slaughtering his bullyboy guards, the playgoer's mind leaps to Nicolae Ceausescu's Bucharest, to Samuel Doe's Monrovia and to far too many other gruesome places arraigned in current headlines. Although Lope de Vega's play was written around 1612 and was based on an actual occurrence in 1476, the abuses of power it depicts remain painfully close to our times...
Last December Taylor, a former official in the government whom Doe had wanted to prosecute for allegedly embezzling nearly $1 million in government funds, led an army of some 170 guerrillas across the border from the Ivory Coast and gradually advanced to the outskirts of Monrovia. But the rebels split when Prince Johnson, a Gio, began accusing Taylor of criminality. U.S. officials say that Taylor is just about as bad as Doe, and Johnson is no savior either. "If we had nudged Doe earlier and harder toward an open society and a free market, it might have made a difference...