Word: taylorism
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...kids from the countryside, and no one on either side has effective command of the ragtag militias. The majority of casualties are civilian. Most combatants avoid fighting, preferring to spray bullets at the other side and then run. The rebels' only stated goal is the ouster of President Charles Taylor, a recently indicted war criminal who insists he is willing to step down and go into exile in Nigeria but keeps creating excuses to postpone his departure. In any case, the opposition is so fragmented and unpopular that there's no obvious candidate to replace him. So it is that...
...neighbors hold another planning meeting in Senegal and pledge to send in several thousand peacekeeping troops, only to put off decisions on the specifics of the mission for a few more days. The Bush Administration says the Africans must take the lead in any such operation and that President Taylor must go into exile before U.S. troops will play any role. But Taylor insists he will not leave until peacekeepers arrive, and many Africans believe that only the U.S. can restore some semblance of order. The last time Nigerian peacekeepers did a tour of duty in Liberia...
...commander Festus Okonkwo said when he finally landed in Monrovia. "We couldn't make it, but now we're here." It's been a long time coming. Fighting raged into its second week in central Monrovia last week, and rebels took Liberia's second biggest city, Buchanan. President Charles Taylor promised yet again to step down, this time by Aug. 11, but also said he wouldn't leave as long as his indictment by a war-crimes court in Sierra Leone stands. Though they say they're committed to sending soldiers, the countries behind the ECOMOG force have argued more...
...torn capital Monrovia to assess conditions for deployment of a battalion of troops. Elsewhere, the regional security organization ECOWAS announced that a contingent of 1,500 Nigerian troops would arrive in Liberia early next week to start the peacekeeping mission, and appealed to Liberia's president, indicted warlord Charles Taylor, to keep his word and take up asylum in Nigeria within three days of their arrival. But having been disappointed many times over the past month - by failed cease-fires, by the failure of the ECOWAS forced promised one month ago to arrive, and by the U.S. equivocating over...
...capital and the second city, Buchanan, over the past three weeks, leaving hundreds of civilians dead in the ensuing battles. The goal is to create facts on the ground before the peacekeepers arrive - the two rebel groups already control 80 percent of Liberia, and if they can defeat Taylor's forces in the capital before ECOWAS arrives, the peacekeepers' role will simply involve overseeing and guaranteeing the transition to a new government. Some African analysts have even speculated that Nigeria's delay in deploying peacekeepers may be in part to allow the Darwinian logic of the battlefield to produce...