Word: weh
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...Seventeen months later, Doe, 30, remains in power-and the killing has resumed. In June, 13 soldiers were executed after confessing to a plot to overthrow Doe and his People's Redemption Council (P.R.C.). Last month five members of the P.R.C. itself, including Doe's deputy, Thomas Weh Syen, were shot after a military tribunal convicted them of planning to assassinate Doe. TIME Nairobi Bureau Chief Jack White, who witnessed the 1980 executions, returned to Monrovia last week and sent this report...
...accompanied by a crackdown on dissent. The twelve civilians in his 17-member Cabinet were drafted into the army with the rank of major, a move that made them subject to military discipline and curbed their ability to speak out in public. Most important, Doe forced a showdown with Weh Syen, his staunchest critic in the P.R.C., who had publicly lashed out at Doe's decision to close the Libyan embassy when it renamed itself a "people's bureau" without Liberian authorization, and to expel nine of the 15 Soviet diplomats stationed in Monrovia on suspicion of spying...
...August, Weh Syen and four other P.R.C. members were arrested and tried by a secret military court. The main charge: plotting to kill Doe and other military leaders. Found guilty, the five men were led past a howling mob to the Barclay Training Center, Monrovia's main military barracks, to be shot and bludgeoned to death in their cells later that night. Besides consolidating Doe's grip on the P.R.C., says a Western diplomat, "the killings were a warning to the former civilians in the Cabinet." One who took the warning seriously was Minister of Planning Togba...
...Pennue, marched into Monrovia's John F. Kennedy Memorial Medical Center shortly after the coup and pistol-whipped a doctor in the middle of an operation. Pennue was subsequently imprisoned for a week and demoted to "co-member" of the council. In July, P.R.C. Co-Chairman Thomas Weh Syen went on a rampage in eastern Liberia, demolishing a century-old monument to the country's founders and ordering the discharge of hundreds of government employees. Doe-who has kept his master sergeant stripes-dispatched his commanding general to collar Weh Syen. Doe, a member of the Krahn tribe...