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0:02commissioners of the
0:04trc
0:07distinguish
0:09liberians gather here
0:14commissioners paramount chiefs
0:17elders who arrived this morning
0:20early this morning from nimba county
0:26former commandos of the special forces
0:29of the iron before noun disbanded
0:33to the great forces alert and model
0:36with our home
0:37democrats it will not prevail today
0:41i end up being for these great forces
0:44fighting dictatorship to ensure
0:46democracy peace and stability
0:50liberia would not be what it is today
0:52and i won't be here called
0:54senator
0:55sitting before the trc to get my account
0:58on the road i play
1:02before i go further i would like to say
1:05that
1:07the last time i talked about chairman
1:09freudia talk about sheikah from a
1:11cornell and others
1:14i would not ask anyone to recruit
1:16themselves
1:18i will not stop my story because some of
1:21them are involved were involved in the
1:22process
1:25i will go right on explaining my story
1:28but my concern is that
1:31the people before whom we set to explain
1:33our stories
1:34themselves our story to tell
1:37and i do not know to whom they would
1:39they will stand to tell their story
1:42these are the distinguished
1:43personalities
1:45who are responsible at the end of the
1:47day
1:48to come out with recommendations either
1:51for war crime or whatever against us or
1:54whoever
1:56i just want you all to know
1:59that i have come here in obedience to my
2:01conscience
2:03and by properly demanding liberal people
2:05for me to come personally and be present
2:10off camera
2:12to tell the liberian people and the
2:14world
2:15what led to the crisis that i was
2:17involved in
2:19and to let them know
2:20my role
2:24i
2:25did not know many years back that there
2:27would be a trc
2:30that i would sit before it to explain
2:33what i did was
2:35i prepared for the future
2:37because i always look into the years
2:39with prayer
2:41so i prepare my memoir
2:44and
2:45don't be disappointed
2:47don't be discouraged because many of you
2:49may want me to stand and just begin to
2:51narrate i don't want to be distracted so
2:53i will read most times from a memoir
2:56and then certain times i will begin to
2:59explain orally
3:02many speakers have been here they have
3:04explained
3:06their role
3:08and listening tentatively
3:10to
3:12the narration given by dr fambola
3:14a great philosopher a professor
3:17i listen to camera joe wally
3:20i listen to so many people
3:24what i'm here to do today
3:27is i explain along the line
3:30i will make comments on most of those
3:33stories that they gave
3:35not to condemn them but to make
3:37amendments
3:41because in the
3:43narration
3:45there was some omissions
3:47and i will fill those gaps
3:50with our permission there
3:55i do not need to dive into
3:581847
4:00because whatever
4:02those who came on the sun in 1847
4:05were accused of
4:07or having one party system
4:09whatever those who came liberians who
4:12came back to today this great nation
4:15whatever they were accused of
4:17i guess
4:19they paid the price in 1980
4:21because they were overthrown
4:23so i don't mean to go back into that
4:25history narrating who came here who
4:27didn't come here
4:29now
4:30my involvement actually started in 1985
4:34november 12
4:361985
4:38i was an unknown soldier
4:40quietly moving here doing my job
4:43the firm and do that as a sodium
4:45in obedience and defend our nation
4:48so i would start from 1985.
4:50as you know
4:52in 1980 there was a coup
4:54a coup against a one-party system rule
4:57he called against america liberian
5:00when the coup was staged
5:02no one forced the junta
5:05to go on the radio and announce to the
5:06liberian people in the world
5:08that they will indeed turn over the
5:10government of liberia in the democratic
5:13elections in 1985
5:15and in that election the gentile members
5:17would not be partakers
5:19they said this to the world they
5:20promised liberian people
5:22they charged the old regime or the tree
5:25body for corruption in fact not just uh
5:27corruption or rampant corruption
5:30earlier their guardians see that when
5:32corruption reached at the peak of
5:34mankind
5:36and when they began to travel far and
5:37near to other countries and begin to
5:40enjoy life
5:41and
5:43in their favorite positions that they
5:45occupied
5:46something began to happen
5:48many of them did not want to any longer
5:51adhere to their own promise to turn
5:53power over in 1985 to the people of
5:55liberia
5:57confusion broke out among the reigns and
5:59followed the
6:00brc
6:02they began the regime began to design
6:04phantom crews it was difficult to know
6:07the radicals and fake ghouls
6:09whatever the case the revolution began
6:11to eat its own babies
6:13and people began to be executed people
6:14began to be tried in kangaroo courts
6:18where they had no due process of law
6:21and i took interest i took interest in
6:24praying i took interest in
6:27making sure in my mind praying in my
6:29mind praying in my heart that this guy
6:33should go
6:34because even the very regime the accused
6:36and and executed his members in that
6:39regime from the days i thought now when
6:41i was small went to school i never heard
6:43of so many clues as i heard of in the in
6:46the dual regime i never heard of many
6:48executions i never saw so many
6:50executions in the dual regime i mean in
6:53the previous regime then they want to
6:57carry out
6:58so i wanted this government to be
7:01removed but how i didn't know the the
7:03how
7:04i didn't know how to get through coming
7:05out of power but in my mind i was no
7:07longer in support because many of our
7:09police were being slaughtered in cold
7:10blood they were being lied on they were
7:13being executed for example where son
7:15coming from football field was arrested
7:17simply because he had he held a
7:18different ideology than dallas amido
7:22nursing too and i joined the army in
7:241974 harry johnson so many of our
7:26colleagues were killed in cold blood
7:28because of phantom pool that was desired
7:30by the junta leader himself
7:32simply because they were not in favor of
7:34his
7:35uh of the prolongation of his
7:36administration a military rule
7:39so i wanted this government to go but i
7:41didn't know how so that was the case
7:43with me
7:44now in his desire in the attempt to
7:47perpetuate his rule he beat the army at
7:49the time was a broad-based army the
7:51armed forces of liberia consisted of all
7:53the tribes but he began to remove they
7:56killed a man he began to move other
7:59crowds and simultaneously
8:00he removed and replaced them and the
8:02army became predominant leg the grand
8:05tribe
8:07at the time he wanted to stay he did all
8:09of this thing here
8:10as time went on
8:12he suspected grampa being a brave man
8:14being a great man most popular in the
8:16revolution among his colleagues among
8:18the people of liberia the maya game
8:20he transferred general quampa from the
8:23position of a commanding general to that
8:25of the secretary general and going by
8:26refused and that brought problem between
8:28doing and
8:29going bank life was very threatening
8:31going back had to go with america he
8:33went abroad he left the country because
8:35his life was creating
8:37humble remains in the united states
8:38until dr formula
8:40uh harvard grieves and philip
8:45and so many of them
8:47they went to the american and they
8:48encouraged guangpur to come back his
8:50wife tala were very
8:54scared
8:55and they told her that kung pao would
8:56not die your husband would not die we
8:58would make sure that he removed the
9:00government and you will return home
9:02because where you are in the united
9:03states is not your home
9:05and they encourage his wife tala mrs
9:07komba to let the husband go
9:10it was 1985
9:12november 12th that kong pa finally came
9:14to liberia at that time i was in the
9:16ministry of national defense g2 office
9:18chief of operation
9:20chief of defense intelligence for
9:22operation
9:23and we knew what was happening but to
9:25whom we tell
9:27our information i was already not in
9:30favor of the regime because the regime
9:32was killing its own babies
9:34so thomas going back in 1985
9:38with uh dr
9:39uh fabulous and his group joe wally and
9:42others joseph beer and myra dennis there
9:44were so many
9:47at the point of crossing from the
9:50mountain river bridge
9:53joe wallace shot joseph beer in the back
9:56whether it was a mistake or intentional
9:59he needs to explain that i didn't hear
10:01that from him when he was on the stand
10:03here
10:04but joe ahmed said
10:07joseph beer was a military strategist of
10:10the evading force upon home conquered
10:12largely depended
10:14and they crossed where the exactly was
10:16going by i cannot say i don't know
10:18whether you were with them if you was
10:20with them then you made a mistake
10:22because when you are leading a military
10:23force and you are leaving the friendly
10:26area to the to the enemy zone upon
10:28contact with the enemy you have to give
10:30a haircut to know how many wounded
10:32hamilton uh missing action eminent asha
10:35how many you take out alive to move on
10:37to the next stage of the operation
10:40but uh that didn't happen and so when
10:42general kumpa entered monrovia
10:45uh he missed he named joseph beer as a
10:48command in general that is to tell you
10:50that he didn't even know that joseph was
10:51killed at the border
10:53so that is where i'm going to tell my
10:55story november 12 1985
10:59johnson
11:00prince johnson and the events
11:03on the morning of november 12 citizens
11:05of monrovia
11:06had a rude awakening by the sounds of
11:09machine guns fire and rocket prepared
11:11grenades vibrating from executive
11:13mansion the home of the president and
11:15also the liberal broadcasting
11:17corporation lbs
11:19shooting persisted throughout the
11:20morning until general compass first was
11:22heard on television and on radio i am
11:25general thomas kwampan the government of
11:27samado has been overthrown though this
11:29in hiding there is no escape for him
11:32the national patriotic forces are taking
11:34over the rings of power we do not want
11:36bloodshed the officers and men of the
11:38armed forces of liberia are hereby
11:41ordered to disarm and remain in the
11:43barracks we have sufficient manpower to
11:46attack the country balancing and air
11:49now
11:50this speech that general thomas
11:51conquered read
11:53was prepared by dr formula
11:57just before they invaded the country
12:00that he didn't need to depend on the
12:02armed forces of liberia why did he do
12:04this because they wanted to neutralize
12:06combat they wanted to keep isolation
12:09because there was a cool detail in a
12:11very among the very group that came to
12:13remove dough now let me elaborate
12:16the group that came with 35 in number
12:1930 ceremonials that were given them by
12:21president mo-mo of civilian upon the
12:23influence of that formula who has a
12:25civilian connection
12:27and there were only five liberians the
12:29five liberians were joseph beer emerald
12:32dennis copper tier cong by himself
12:35and a
12:37mcqueen
12:39mr mcgreen
12:40he's 25.
12:42and so the plan was look don't encourage
12:44the armed forces to come near the
12:45general if the general should succeed in
12:48killing door then you guys should kill
12:50combat immediately and invite me to take
12:52the ring of power and then let the world
12:54know that combat died in action
12:57and that was the plan
12:59and so when they came to monrovia
13:01i went to join them i was at my house
13:04that morning when they sound the gun
13:05began to vibrate
13:08i saw two journalists my colleagues my
13:10friends we lived together and for many
13:12years we knew each other
13:14and
13:16that is
13:17what is the church being
13:20and another guy
13:22coming clement
13:23they came to my house and said johnson
13:25there's a shooting at the station we
13:27would like to go there but we are afraid
13:29and i said okay if you are afraid then
13:30you wait we go together so i went with
13:32them
13:33to make sure it was relevant speaking or
13:36not when i got to the radio station this
13:38is the time i met general thomas krumper
13:41i met him at the time
13:43he was leaving the radio station himself
13:45coming out when the civilian guy
13:47arrested me in this army
13:49because people were not to take guns in
13:51there other than those who already came
13:52to the country they were coming back him
13:54he asked him to return my guns and ask
13:57me to join them so i was happy to join
13:59them because as i told you earlier i had
14:01breathed
14:03i had a pre-determination in my mind
14:05long before they did that
14:07to join in a group of people to move the
14:09government that was killing his own
14:11babies
14:12lying on his own babies and killing them
14:14so this i felt with my opportunity was
14:17the best chance so i joined thomas
14:20when i joined thomas
14:22i was also taken aback if he came to
14:24really
14:25revolutionize this country to overthrow
14:27the government
14:29that he felt was so oppressive i wonder
14:31why you had to go all the way see no
14:33bloodshed sodium returned to the
14:35barracks
14:36do not want bloodbath and he also said
14:38if people killed shoot anyone those
14:41people be immediately executed what if
14:43they grouped he was depending on by air
14:45balloon but see if they have come i
14:46wanna they won't kill
14:48because there is no revolution
14:51that has ever been staged that i know in
14:53africa with all bloodshed
14:56you must share blood
14:58those people you are going to remove
15:00from power
15:01will defend
15:02they won't take it lightly with you
15:05so if you don't succeed they get rid of
15:07you
15:09so the blunders that were created
15:12may come back to going into harden when
15:14you heard about the death of joseph beer
15:15when he heard about the contact pool the
15:17good that was in the very cool that he
15:18brought he could not stand it any longer
15:20because he already left the radio
15:22station and you heard that the afl troop
15:25was very close to the radio station and
15:26there was no way to go back there to
15:28tell the afl that he wants to disarm and
15:31return to the barracks to come once
15:32again to his age he could not do so
15:36so congrats said goodbye to me and he
15:37was leaving i didn't know what he had
15:38gone to after he went to bdc when i
15:41rushed to bdc i couldn't see him i came
15:43back to the station they were shooting
15:45and i left to go to the 72nd to get the
15:48ammo personnel carrier because i can
15:50drive it and i got one good guy to shoot
15:52the 50 caliber that was mounted there
15:54and i went with one guy called robert
15:57ratty he's always with uh
15:59ambassador joshua
16:01we both went together in the car he
16:03drove the car and we got there i went
16:06i took one of the brilliance i had on me
16:08and i put it in my pants
16:10i was taking a risk
16:11because if the pain had dropped i would
16:13i would be blown out
16:15but i i had a day
16:17and so when we got to the 72nd
16:20we saw the sodium standing up very quiet
16:22looking and the play was so silent and i
16:25asked for lieutenant glenn
16:27latina glenn was the one that general
16:29pompa named that morning as a commanding
16:30officer of the 72nd battalion
16:34so when i went in he was sitting behind
16:36his desk and slowly i surrounded him and
16:38i talked about the bodyguards and i told
16:40him latin agree i'm here the radio
16:42station is on fire i want to recapture
16:45it i can regroup the afl and capture it
16:49but he couldn't answer me he was just
16:50sitting down
16:52i did everything to communicate with him
16:54whatever went no way
16:55then i suspected something was happening
16:58by the time i could come out
17:00the soldier grabbed me right at the door
17:02they took up my my shirt
17:05and took on my boots
17:07and uh mark sharp y'all know mark and
17:09sharp
17:10on the match up he was there we picked
17:12on the pita solo
17:13and they were tight during themselves
17:16some say let's shoot this man and the
17:18other said no this man would come by in
17:20the morning we saw this man it would
17:22kill him we wouldn't know where kung pao
17:23is hiding that does not kill him he will
17:26have to explain detail on how the
17:28invaders came so they were arguing and
17:30somebody said look let's hang up the man
17:32and then i just show my hand like this
17:34and they have caught me in the front
17:36a hand called a hanoki no one that had a
17:38key
17:39there was only one shoe that i had a
17:40haircut and they had called me in the
17:42front
17:44and i was it
17:45and uh peter said look let's tell the
17:48men to come suffering and have him
17:49executed then my son said no masha and
17:52peter so listen no let us take the man
17:54to bc put on this tacky and then tonight
17:57we will do his job that means to kill me
17:59and midnight
18:01so they put me in the ammo personnel
18:03carrier
18:04and we soldiers on top and we drove from
18:0672nd through ghana's way
18:09through the freeport area and we got to
18:11the bridge tucker bridge and when we
18:13crossed the bridge i thought we were
18:14going straight to bdc they were great
18:16they too were afraid because they didn't
18:18know what was ahead of them so we went
18:21to
18:23slavery
18:25i did not know that the afl had a branch
18:27established there back on the mac shop
18:29so they took me there and he got down
18:31with a few soldiers to go in the house
18:34to communicate to headquarters in
18:36business with headquarters in bdc
18:37whether the road everything was quiet
18:39whether busy was under control the afl
18:42he went to get the information
18:43so as i was sitting there the haircut
18:46was
18:47matching my my hand going to my flesh
18:50i put my hair up trying to look at the
18:52drew river so i could jump on a stream
18:55and and my heart was telling me no god
18:58was telling me don't go there
18:59my heart was telling me don't go
19:01you you will not swim better with this
19:03cough on your hand and you will be
19:05killed just for me where you are
19:07and
19:08i did it i went back into the tank
19:11and marshall came out from the house he
19:13got in the tank and we drove to bdc as
19:15we got from from meckling street to lynn
19:18street we bring in the motor pool he saw
19:20some soldiers whom he discovered that
19:23morning to be with someone
19:26thomas grumper and he stopped the tank
19:28and ordered the soldier to come down and
19:30arrest the few soldiers that were there
19:32then as he got down i put my hand in my
19:34pants and it was it was not very easy
19:37but i did and i took all the grenade and
19:39held the grenade in my hand so as they
19:41came and got down and that the master
19:43came in they turned others so that they
19:45arrested they were on top of the tank
19:46two came in the tank to join me then i
19:49saw as i discovered they have gotten
19:50seated and they were about to pull up i
19:52dropped the grenade right at the feet of
19:54conor mcshape and i said grenade
19:58and myself and his group opened the tank
20:00and fled for the life
20:02and when he fled i came out my shop is a
20:04living witness though he's still alive
20:08many soldiers from bc who know the story
20:09they are here
20:11then i ran outside the great motorpool
20:13gate uh right on
20:17lone street there there's a gas station
20:18there at the back of it there was a
20:20government trolley there with a
20:22rc rc i mean a red cross so i went i
20:26tried to jump over the fence two three
20:27times
20:28it was difficult but i saw the sodium
20:30running because at the time when i ran
20:32away the the tank was sparked right at
20:35the gate at the entrance of the the
20:37motor pool so the soldiers were flared
20:39and took cover on the different cars far
20:41away from the truck from the tank could
20:43not come they thought the tank would
20:44explode but by the time they got to know
20:46that the tank will not explode because
20:47the problem the grenade
20:48the plane was still there they chased me
20:50but i have crossed over jumping over the
20:53fence to go into public west compound by
20:55five something in the morning and they
20:57managed to cross over at the time i was
20:59it was a heavy rainy day to the the
21:02ground was white it was really heavily
21:04and i was honored one all dilapidated
21:07truck that had been there for years
21:09and the only thing that that divided the
21:11public was in the
21:13graveyard was just a fence and the big
21:16drainage with water
21:18so i stayed on the the truck and the
21:21soldiers came arguing among themselves
21:24blaming themselves why they didn't kill
21:25me and somebody left me to escape if
21:28they had killed me it would have been
21:29the best thing now they sent them to
21:31look for me they were shooting all over
21:32the place and there were noise of
21:35machine guns light fires and so forth
21:37and i was just right there
21:40and what scared me most i almost came
21:42out was that i saw a serpent born
21:44constructed under the truck
21:47i was very scared
21:48if i had coughed i would be finished by
21:50today
21:51but i remained there and about seven
21:53o'clock they had left they searched the
21:55wrong place in fact the party was so big
21:57you know it's still big up to today's
21:58date and they didn't know exactly what i
22:00had gone to looking for one man a big
22:02place like that was very difficult
22:04and so they left when they left
22:06ijac put myself in the drainage and
22:09found my way
22:10across the graveyard got the center
22:12street where the people were patrolling
22:14and i kept myself on a consumer on the
22:17cross where they went to the
22:19randa street i mean basically area then
22:21i crossed to the opal office
22:24when i got to the old pal office you're
22:26no partner
22:27when i got to the opal office on girly
22:29street there i took off i removed my
22:31pants from my for me and i remain in
22:34brief
22:35i remove it and i saw the whole cold
22:37part and i put the old coat pan on my
22:39hair now i got the water and saw area
22:41there that is now being used at the nba
22:43office and i got on the street went all
22:46the way to the beach area convened
22:48behind
22:49and i went to coconut plantation
22:51that person who saved me i won't call
22:53the name for security purpose
22:55but a crippled woman saved me
22:58the crippled woman saved me i went to
23:00the house that night and the key she
23:02used to uncover me was a key that the
23:06country people normally use for the old
23:08type of valleys she used that to
23:11uncover me and they said to me stay here
23:14on the day break
23:15and i said if i stay here
23:18all of you will be finished because dude
23:20was on the radio announcing that
23:22wherever they will catch on the rebel
23:26whoever in that area will be finished
23:28so i told her i won't stay here
23:31now
23:31her brother was up country her brother
23:34was in the army i think in 10th
23:35battalion
23:36and he had his m16 he won a rocket
23:38launcher
23:40the grenade launcher was in the house
23:42and i
23:44instead of coming out i came up to the
23:46m16 took the uniform address and i came
23:48up because the soldiers and they were
23:51not recognizing each other i made sure
23:53that i was never recognized i made sure
23:55that i want to do so down the street
23:56there
23:57so i came home all the way and then i
23:59knocked on my door my mother's door she
24:01was up country and my sister came to the
24:04window who is it because they thought i
24:06had been killed that afternoon the
24:07soldiers of the afl from the mansion
24:09certainly they killed me they came to my
24:11house and collected my vehicle and other
24:12things
24:14so they opened the door and i went
24:15upstairs in the ceiling
24:17the next morning there was basically
24:19announced on the radio they would do
24:20hustle as such so the people in my
24:22mother's house said look if you stay
24:24here we all will die you better go your
24:26way
24:27if you stay here and refuse to move we
24:29will show you
24:30so my house was not too far from there
24:32and i just went to my house that day i
24:34took
24:35a
24:36sixth battle or small gold medal to get
24:38drunk labor to get out and they said
24:39barack obama could not make me drunk
24:42so all i had to do was i need a prayer
24:45so i just prayed and walked out and i
24:47went to my own house and then i was in
24:49the ceiling in the morning i asked my
24:51wife to open the front door open the
24:52back door open the windows and open the
24:54main door of the house so soldiers would
24:56come you know why an important person
24:58that is wanted for treason or somebody
25:00that is a large is needed by government
25:02whatever government his hiding would not
25:04be will not be open like that it should
25:06be in a consistent place but i was in
25:08the room there under the bed at times
25:10i'm in the ceiling the room will be open
25:12the door outside opening the door back
25:14open the window open everything open and
25:16i'm there
25:17and the soldiers came after the almost a
25:19month because i stay in liberia after
25:21december december christmas season like
25:24that so i stayed there and the soldiers
25:26came and told my wife look we know this
25:28man
25:30was not killed we know he's brave we
25:32know he's capable of coming back and
25:35regrouping
25:36your father is john walkey conor john
25:38rocky
25:39so your father is still withdraw and
25:42this man you married john to john rebel
25:44so you better tell us what this man is
25:47we are aware that you're telling the
25:48truth that he's not here but if he does
25:50come here let us know here is 500
25:54so they gave my wife money to take care
25:57of the baby on the ground that if i came
25:59back she should let them know and i was
26:01right there hearing how they were saying
26:03if i saw there i said let's go under the
26:04bear i would be feeling by now
26:06but i was right there
26:08and i was not scared to shake i didn't
26:10cough and he left
26:12when he left i began to
26:14strategize i had to leave monrovia
26:17at that time the public were minister i
26:19won't call his name he had left for
26:21abroad for a foreign trip and my uncle
26:23was driving for him in 1985
26:26and the mdpr t-shirts
26:28we sent some people some sympathizer who
26:30are with ndpl they came to my ear for
26:32nimba they gave me as many ndpi t-shirts
26:35caps
26:36and they brought it to me and they they
26:38said the minister was not in town
26:40the driver brought a car
26:43to me arael
26:44and we wore the t-shirt that morning by
26:46seven o'clock in the evening after a
26:48monday monrovia and i
26:50put more drinks in the car
26:52and we begin to grow as a ndpi
26:54pattersons so every checkpoint we wave
26:56today and to them thank you victory over
26:59the
27:00invading force
27:01[Music]
27:03so we got to salalah the the maximum
27:07gate
27:08we got there i was very hungry and i saw
27:10a little that was
27:11roasting planting
27:13and
27:14i had sat in the car dreamed up with the
27:16people malevolent problem and i just
27:19took the chance i said lord i'm hungry
27:21i'm going to buy something cover me up
27:23and i got there and i would buy
27:25planting four planting rooster planting
27:28and australia was there i didn't know
27:29who i was i'm a member of the ndpl i'm a
27:32person
27:33and after all of that
27:35i went away to the corridor nobody knew
27:39who was in the car
27:41until i got to average buddha and i
27:44threw the t-shirt everything away
27:46and i crossed into ezra
27:49in asyl
27:51we begin to look for our colleagues
27:54who are scattered who are run away from
27:56from liberia especially leptin equipped
27:59here
28:01did not
28:02did not die during the crisis
28:04he escaped and went to cook i mean i
28:06recalls
28:07and so i
28:09sent people out to help locate where he
28:11was and they did they came and told me
28:14and i went personally to visit him and i
28:16told him you did not run away you
28:18retreated to stage another maximum
28:21battle
28:22so let us close ranks let us join ranks
28:26and so we begin to mobilize
28:28and we mobilize as many do we didn't
28:30have money though we didn't have money
28:32we didn't have any place to train the
28:34men but we kept them together
28:36i did my best to keep them together
28:39refugees spread all over the western
28:41coast of cote d'ivoire
28:43we brought them together every saturday
28:45we used to meet in my town
28:47a very large number of people
28:50and the news got to liberia
28:52and moses rupert came to join us
28:55the first person who crossed over was
28:58nuclear support here
29:00podia came to join us we received him
29:02he brought some money and because he was
29:05former vast head of state
29:07he had traveled extensively he knew many
29:10foreign lands we decided to make him our
29:12leader says
29:13he could be the one to lead us for
29:15training for training
29:17so he
29:20we we
29:21told him to be our leader and found a
29:23way for us to go to foreign country to
29:24be trained he accepted gladly we all
29:27accepted he didn't take long to put also
29:29king
29:30when robert came
29:31and he wanted to take leadership of the
29:33group that was not possible because he
29:35didn't have money
29:36like us and we want to put here so after
29:39spending a few times with us he had to
29:41go to nigeria where he took refuge with
29:43the united nations commission for
29:45refugee in lagos so this uh project
29:47stayed with us we were in that is when
29:50we're in in court of ram we went to
29:51donald and finally to
29:54abhishen
29:55where we met tony king
29:57tuna king had a means of finding base
29:59because he was in contact with blessed
30:01campari
30:02you are blessed campari married the wife
30:04the former wife of the late evie trouble
30:07so he was connected there very closely
30:09but he didn't want to make a contact for
30:11her though he knew it was both guys very
30:14brave guys and
30:16and many in number
30:18but he didn't want to help us because he
30:20was not in common sense and not not in
30:22favor of social indigenes you know
30:25grouping and saying they wonder what he
30:26needed in an american librarian
30:28leadership
30:30and uh he told us that in fact
30:32your
30:33your
30:34your in-law will soon be coming charles
30:36stella you know adult the jerry teller
30:39in america and don't want to extradite
30:41him we are trying to get him from
30:43america we get to live in america he
30:45married to your
30:46your sister all of you nima people are
30:48your daughter so when you accept today
30:50when he comes we sat fine he said when
30:53taylor comes then i will now open the
30:56door to lead you to places where you can
30:58quickly get training base and train and
31:00come and remove
31:02samadou so we remain there and we're
31:05asking how they are going to be free he
31:07said well there was a diplomatic rich
31:09man that was being carried off by the
31:11few american librarians now all of them
31:13per se
31:14and uh
31:16with the help of ramsey black
31:18the pharman entertained georgia supreme
31:20court united states
31:21we got him out so taylor did not break
31:24jail till it did not break maximum jail
31:26tita was light out with the purpose of
31:28coming to liberia to join us to remove
31:31the detector assistant
31:33and so teller came to
31:35he got free went through mexico other
31:37places and came to liberia
31:39when he came to liberia he met us in the
31:40corrivoir and we dearly welcomed him
31:44but we we had not to
31:46put here then that we didn't want him
31:48any longer
31:50because he had the money but i didn't
31:52know training base he didn't have any
31:53direct contact he needed to go around
31:56asking people and we felt then that he
31:58didn't have that much contact now until
32:00the rules come as our brother-in-law
32:02were attached more important to our
32:03plight than anybody else
32:06so we accepted teller and he was with us
32:09and while we were there
32:12taylor was still afraid of podiums
32:14because podia was still
32:15interested in making rules in ensuring
32:18that uh training be provided whatever
32:21country he could find it
32:22so what happened was that there was a
32:24guard among us called william obi
32:27william obi in monrovia served as a
32:29bodyguard to
32:30a podium at his house
32:32and so william obi was with us so tell
32:35her to he said you know what william
32:37said no
32:38say you are watching project's close and
32:40you normally clean his house not
32:54available and destroy them bring the
32:57money to me later
32:59once you have the key he wouldn't know
33:01that you broke it because you would tell
33:02him that as i left from here to go the
33:04house i've already been broken into
33:07that was the strategy put in play by mr
33:09taylor to incapacity podia
33:13so that was done
33:15and put there cried greatly
33:17he got no passport no money at the last
33:20resort he ended up being washing my demo
33:22people
33:23dishes you know that
33:25that money morning food they can face
33:27with raised rice water
33:29police started rushing it was very very
33:32bad and taylor did not want that to
33:34follow us
33:35that was very bad at the time his plight
33:38declined seriously podianan decided to
33:41contact victor hagar
33:44now as a lebanese man mentioned here
33:45victor had got late
33:48and to say putin came to a true buddha
33:51didn't have money then her armies
33:54i am seriously of the thought that
33:56victor hagon may have contacted though
33:58for morning business and to put here
34:00your your former soldiers have grouped
34:02in your favor they are the border to
34:04help you come back home to remove dough
34:06so when put their cross they are resting
34:08here and saying they were true podia did
34:10not come to our truth
34:11that was not the case
34:13and so
34:14we put that out of the way
34:16we would also out of the way we never
34:18stopped to play a game because he was in
34:20nigeria
34:21and we were left alone with taylor and
34:23ourselves
34:24and so blessed camparina decided to
34:27introduce
34:29mr taylor to bless campari
34:32and after the introduction bless kampari
34:34by the idea
34:36that thomas sankara was not in favor
34:38and we didn't know that
34:40we were not told he could devour the
34:42blessed
34:43that thomas sankara were not in syria we
34:44were not told they know
34:46so serious of verses were made by mr
34:49taylor
34:50through uh
34:52wakkadugu and the end result was okay
34:55you can come
34:56so they threw us in one group by group
34:58and we all gathered in wakaduku
35:00organically
35:05there were other guys there already
35:07when we got there
35:08we were told
35:10that
35:12we were going to be arrested in a few
35:14hours
35:15if
35:16we did not comply to remove sankara from
35:19office that sankara was not in favor of
35:22any invasion he was that interested and
35:25that he would arrest other librarians
35:27and send them back
35:29to liberia
35:31and that caused panic
35:33so the group because sankara was the
35:35president blessed campari was the deputy
35:38head of state and commander of the poor
35:40of the poor
35:42of the poor barracks the report barrier
35:44consists of the commando units that
35:46provided security for the mansion
35:48so you see how it was very easy for
35:51sakhara to be removed
35:52so the group that was in the barracks
35:54with the commandos the liberian group
35:56were requested or ordered to join the
35:59the group of bokeh base commando units
36:02to remove thomas sankara and
36:05to prove way for us to stay in burkina
36:07faso to go into libya to come out of
36:09vocant and to come out of libya back to
36:14wakaduku
36:15so that was how thomas ankara was
36:18removed
36:18and we got to libya
36:20when we got to libya there was another
36:22group
36:23and
36:24from our group there was a first group
36:25that would dispatch
36:27but all along this line we had not
36:29discussed
36:31who would be our leader
36:33we accepted taylor as our in-law to help
36:35us
36:36save neymar country from the oppressive
36:38system of samado
36:41but we need not to have a leader and
36:43there was a revolutionary group
36:45a leader in which a leader is not
36:48imposed upon anybody
36:49when we got to libya william obi i
36:51talked about was the first group that
36:53first group of people that went to libya
36:55and when we got there and the english we
36:56heard was that in english we we we
36:59we could get used to the group that went
37:02willing obey to them major taylor our
37:04leader major taylor our leader major
37:06taylor is our leader you lucky jackal
37:09you don't like jack-o-lantern
37:12so tell her leadership was imposed upon
37:14us in libya
37:15when we got there from burkina and
37:17joined all the other groups there were
37:18other people impressing they're already
37:20on the base the people who said that
37:22they needed election and they would not
37:24take killer as a leader forget about
37:26spending money and doing what it was not
37:27his own money it was qadhafi's money
37:29that he wanted to spend and a day the
37:31men were the ones to use to use the guns
37:34to share blood their own blood in the
37:35blood of their own countrymen so they
37:37were known in the protella they wanted
37:39men from the more they owned their own
37:40kind
37:42and that didn't go well with mr taylor
37:43you're impressing
37:45coppa miller impressing the gossip right
37:48and
37:49in burkina faso he he tricked them into
37:51going to bocanna with the internal
37:53buying vehicles which we could use to
37:55invade liberia when he got there he
37:57added blessed temporary to impressing
37:58them and they remain in jail
38:00on the brace itself i was in jail i had
38:03elite general summer vanity was in jail
38:06tiger wanted was also put to jail
38:08inaudible was put to jail that so many
38:10people were in jail they would build us
38:12in jail take us from jail touch your eye
38:13and go for training
38:15and charge off our treason
38:17he took him from jail and asked musa to
38:18make new tribunal chairman i became the
38:21chairman
38:22of the tribunal in essa when we had not
38:24come to remove door and do a stay here
38:26as a leader president commanding chief
38:28we are troubling each other in libya
38:32and taylor had a system where
38:35he
38:35he had one man on another one group on
38:37another each group was an and a private
38:40security and on the other group
38:43and when you had nothing to report
38:44whenever he came from burkina faso to
38:46libya when he had nothing to report he
38:48won't trust you
38:49so
38:50when we discovered that whenever he came
38:52back from libya there were over 100 plus
38:55letters from the different the same
38:56people be writing against each other
38:58like chairman vader were right against
39:00me that i want to throw over to tell her
39:02that i would ride again foreign
39:07so the whole thing was confused
39:10so we were in libya and
39:13he explained this to bless campari and
39:15bless comparison to him well if the
39:17soldiers you will use to a troll your
39:19country's government is divided on this
39:22line
39:22and and and and they cannot understand
39:25each other they don't even like you then
39:26i will provide you commandos
39:29and he said no your commanders don't
39:30know our terrain
39:32whatever the case i will hold my patient
39:34i will try to not let them know what i
39:36intend to do
39:37but they will get to know later
39:40you will only put a few men and money
39:42when we are leaving to go
39:44and then on the base we have uh guineans
39:48we have ceremonials we have liberians
39:50right there by putin measure the
39:52leopoldo mayor from i think grand
39:54crossano
39:55and these guys were ascended by
39:58by obama formula through joe wally
40:00a fumble
40:01british
40:02so they were in libya but when they gave
40:05joe wally and the group money to go and
40:07bring more recruits for training to come
40:09and invade liberia money was free they
40:11didn't go back
40:13and they left those boss abandoned and
40:15those were the guys that we are stopped
40:17into the mpfl
40:18taylor brother onboard because his own
40:20group now he could not trust so many of
40:22us so he brought other groups from the
40:24liberian group that formula tender
40:27he brought also the group from savannah
40:29he brought other groups but the group
40:32from sierra leone did not have
40:33leadership because the leadership was
40:35given money
40:36to go and bring more recruits to and he
40:38decided to build a supermarket in a
40:40guinea conocry
40:43and abandoned
40:44the men there in libya so all these
40:47groups were brought on board
40:50centella knew that
40:52the men he heard
40:54though they were small and number but
40:56very qualified very technical very
40:58proficient but what one was lacking
41:00according to him was the obedience and
41:02submissiveness to him
41:04so he had to bring other groups on board
41:06to neutralize this libyan group
41:09so we went through series and
41:12trainings
41:13telecom trainings airborne training
41:15jungle warfare whatever the case
41:18all faces of military discipline
41:21went through
41:22to come and attack liberia
41:25we wanted to attack liberia
41:27launching a sea born attack
41:29but a stronger gibraltar was blocked by
41:31the u.s warships because there were
41:33sanctions on libya at the time so we
41:35couldn't make it
41:36so
41:37we couldn't pass through articles
41:39and they
41:41we thought we could pass through
41:42agriculture and that was the only hope
41:44for us
41:45that was the only option
41:46but we decided to use cevalion so mr
41:49taylor said to us look
41:51say we cannot pass through the street
41:52gibrata from here to launch a seaborn
41:55attack
41:56stay on the high sea and come on on show
41:58with boats to launch an attack and
42:00there's no way
42:01let's trust them alone because
42:04once upon a time mpf that i am not heard
42:07of today passed through freetown did not
42:09just pass there but president mumu who
42:11is still president at the time
42:14libya uh provided men
42:17for kuala lumpur to evade liberia so
42:19taylor nan left to go to civilian with
42:22one prince badly
42:24so praise barbara and i'm talking to
42:25president mumu and explain him to mr
42:28taylor to him
42:29and the idea of using civilian was
42:31accepted by president mumu
42:34several verses were made to save you
42:37with a hope of concretizing that
42:39connection with momo
42:42at last momou said okay i agree but
42:44there's something you know this the the
42:46men that i gave to quampa through the
42:48instrumentality of that sort of that
42:51formula were killed in combat
42:53and their children and their wives are
42:55suffering
42:56so we need help to give to the family
42:59so you have to give me some money to get
43:00a family
43:02and tell us okay that is fifty thousand
43:03dollars american dollars
43:05i do not know exactly how much president
43:07president muhammad received until as his
43:09own personal gain but fifty thousand
43:11dollar was given to
43:13president mohamed for the family members
43:15of the saudis that died in in action in
43:18liberia
43:21when i was down he said okay
43:23there are some houses over there look at
43:25them the one you think is okay to
43:27accommodate your men
43:29go ahead take it furnish it very well if
43:31you do not have the time give me some
43:33money to furnish it put mattresses
43:35freeze in everything you need and live
43:37for you one week and a half and you will
43:39want to stay in sierra leone to rest
43:41until you view liberia
43:44so taylor gave him the money
43:45teller thought it would be it would be
43:47cheap on his part if he sat there to buy
43:48those to himself so he gave the money
43:51and everything to momo with the hope
43:52that muhammad will put everything in the
43:54proper place
43:55and taylor left
43:57to come back to libya he briefed us
44:00fully we were very happy
44:02after two weeks he got single for a
44:04moment that he should come
44:06to civilian to inspect the facilities
44:08and when president and
44:10mr taylor got to to
44:12to save you
44:13at long gay airport he was arrested upon
44:17mamu's order mumu had left yesterday to
44:20london and led the order to arrest her
44:21still like today
44:23taylor was arrested and put in prison
44:27and the other was to beat the left when
44:29the sun latches every day for five days
44:34so they you know the fight said they
44:36fought killer
44:37the next day
44:39then one making one great hair making
44:42hella make him and say look i want to
44:44help you
44:45did i say let them beat me you are
44:46always say i want to help you i am fully
44:48single
44:50i've been here for many years for cool
44:53guitar
44:54against i think shaka stevie
44:57oh my god
44:59he has stayed so long in jail
45:05sorry you are still
45:08so long in jail and his time was just
45:10about to over within three months
45:13[Music]
45:15is there any problem
45:21his time was just about to over
45:23his death center was commuted to
45:2625 years or so in prison and his time
45:29was just about to be over within three
45:30months
45:31so tell us say look
45:33if this man
45:35i don't i never knew before
45:37could accept to take beatings for me
45:40under the rest of the days that they
45:42said i should be beaten
45:44then
45:44if i help this man send a ceremonial
45:47group in libya got no leadership if i
45:49have fully single and provide everything
45:52to launch an attack on president mohamed
45:54who beat me i think no one from liberian
45:57dissident group will ever attack me
45:59first of all
46:00so that's how taylor and foreign met
46:04they met in prison in freetown
46:07so when taylor got free from jerry he
46:09came to us and took off his shirts all
46:12of us cried and all of us that even
46:15increase our resolve
46:17to fight momo
46:19because if you don't want our leader
46:21if you do not want us to pass through
46:23your country
46:24well i'll take the money but why arrest
46:26you and beat him
46:30so
46:31that was why i tell her after three
46:32months
46:34foreign got free and i still
46:37asked him to do we went to average and
46:40met tony king who took him to
46:43burkina faso and jonathan and then i
46:45introduced him to blast kampalu and that
46:47was the homework contract to president
46:50mahmoud qadhafi
46:51so
46:52he now foreign took possession of the
46:56troops the group that was left behind
46:59whose leader had gone to
47:00guinea and opened a supermarket and
47:03abandoned her fighting force
47:04so that was a connection between taylor
47:07and this man so after that we
47:11remained in libya
47:13for almost nine months
47:15we stayed so long got no place to pass
47:20so arrested were made
47:22game
47:23by taylor this time he told us
47:27i have contacted first battalion six
47:29battalion that is bombing hills and
47:31shuffling
47:32and they are
47:33all eager to receive our first batch of
47:36fighting men and they would launch the
47:39attack in monrovia while we launched
47:41from the border
47:42in fact the weapons being used from the
47:44border side are already being dispatched
47:46on the liberal side from average course
47:49by royal brutal so when you cross the
47:52day you get ready to cross will show you
47:53what the weapons are meanwhile these
47:55guys are going to monrovia
47:57not knowing taylor lied he made no
47:59contact with him suffering he made no
48:01contact with burma hills those guys his
48:04son follower were the guys that
48:07did not like him were the guys who
48:09opposed him who said they did not want
48:12taylor
48:13because he was self-centered that he was
48:15interested in using the gear among
48:17people to overthrow the regime or do to
48:19take power by force and remain as a
48:21leader indefinitely on the debt
48:24on the debt
48:25so those guys were the ones he sent to
48:27monrovia and they were arrested in
48:29monrovia televised
48:31and today is history where they are we
48:34cannot see
48:36so for us who left behind
48:39taylor told us i was a planning and
48:41training officer
48:43he told us and william obery was a
48:45battlefield commander
48:47he led us to the border that that early
48:49morning and said
48:50cross on a bamboo raft
48:52and cross down the labyrinth you see
48:55guns
48:56and some crossed and began to look for
48:58the gun they couldn't fire they were all
49:00the way on the road looking for the guns
49:02and then we crossed
49:03there were absolutely no guns still a
49:06lie
49:08he made our lives vulnerable
49:10had the afl soldier been there that day
49:12this would be all history
49:15so some of the soldiers who went looking
49:16for the guns ahead on the road returned
49:19to the riverside and said they were not
49:21going because there were no guns
49:23and when they crossed to to go to taylor
49:25to where he was standing when we crossed
49:27till i had gone back to an unknown
49:29destination i don't know where out of
49:31her pocket where he was we didn't know
49:34so i said for me
49:36i am not going back
49:39because
49:40i don't see taylor being a good leader
49:44i don't see utena been a good leader
49:46has seen taylor being so oppressive
49:49till i was a scary man
49:52and merusakia cannot lead this country
49:55and he depended
49:57his administration over there on lies on
49:59whatever he was told and he trusted
50:02liars and made good friends with liars
50:04if he lied to tell her you are a best
50:06friend
50:07and so people were lying implicating
50:09people
50:11so i look at that
50:12in ezra and i choose never to cross the
50:15river i said today
50:18if i die
50:20let me die
50:21who would like to follow me
50:23a few commandos follow me we command on
50:26knives we brought in strongly market
50:29a few commandos taking risk
50:32the risk that we took
50:34and install interim governor dr sire
50:38and later
50:41they begin to call us names
50:46we attacked this country
50:48[Applause]
50:50with limited weapons that were not
50:52previously with us except knives
50:55we got to brutal
50:58christmas eve
51:00about going to six in the morning
51:03and we saw a muslim man going to the
51:05mosque
51:07and i sent a few guys to bring him over
51:09to us
51:11and when he saw those guys he thought
51:12they were coming from the nearby town
51:15and they call him to us he didn't know
51:17we were all there hiding
51:19among the bushes
51:21and he came and we said to him we are
51:22here to take over this town where is the
51:25commanding officer
51:26he said i'm living in the same house
51:28with the commanding officer in fact good
51:30news
51:32we know that combat did not die we know
51:34kwanpai is alive but there were last two
51:36that he died but we are convinced that
51:37he's not there that's true you're right
51:39congratulations right now
51:42so
51:43he said also that the commanding officer
51:45left monrovia like yesterday and brought
51:47more supply for the christmas season it
51:50was on christmas eve
51:52they brought uniform they brought guns
51:54they brought ammunition and so forth
51:56rocket prepared grenades and everything
51:58so we asked him to take us there
52:00and he took us there and we lay on the
52:02doorposts he knocked the door and he
52:03made answer who was it he caught his
52:05name and the man opened the door by a
52:06guy he opened it was shocking with a
52:08knife
52:09and
52:09operated on him
52:11and that was how
52:13in his in his store room in that
52:15building
52:16we now dressed fully with military
52:18uniform
52:20we don't talk the rpgs we now took the
52:23gmgs they let the mario raffle the m16a1
52:26rocket launchers everything they brought
52:28we seize it
52:32then
52:32in the morning they were not shooting in
52:34the morning they saw they had gone that
52:37day to look for
52:39the christmas food they came in when
52:41they came here and saw us in new
52:43camouflage
52:44they thought that their boss man had
52:46divided the uniform he brought from
52:47aurora
52:48they didn't they didn't identify us
52:50under the king era and when they came
52:51there
52:52gone open and we killed them all
52:55ali those who came to the town
52:57then we took the
52:58radio and call
53:01their headquarters
53:02i think gunther also and told them
53:05butro is under attack by rebels we are
53:08in control but we only need few
53:10ammunitions
53:11and a few are because somebody
53:13brought in
53:16we are not being given and we need
53:19italico extreme men to come and know
53:22and take care of them for us
53:25so now after we gave they said they were
53:27coming there was sad ambush on a hill
53:30he was running on a very slippery hill
53:33we saw the ambush down the hill and we
53:35started ambush up the hill
53:38and told them
53:40the city of fire but there will be fire
53:42on the hill if it will first initially
53:44fire on the hill the soldier will have
53:46to run back because all they would think
53:48is the attack is on the hill they want
53:50to run back down and find a way and that
53:52will immediately not suppress the fire
53:56so but the battalion
53:58that was coming the union that was
54:00coming
54:01brought his own equipment this one basil
54:04law and other ammunition team requested
54:06for body but the the unit commander i
54:09was speaking i said it was a soldier man
54:11for the air force speaking
54:12so when he came we ambrish then
54:15those who ran away may god help them
54:17those who did not run away we feast
54:19everything with the broad and the heart
54:21will begin to maximize our strength the
54:23more ammunition we have the more
54:25equipment the more uniform we started
54:27our recruitment process
54:30then we move on to campaign
54:32where you have 106 i would have 4.2 105
54:35heavy weapons
54:37think you all know
54:39the time
54:41president was on the television and said
54:42look remember people y'all leave your
54:45home if you don't leave your home that
54:47you and the children will never be seen
54:49again
54:50it was after that statement broke us on
54:52the television and and radio that he
54:54then dispatched
54:55all the deadly weapons to nima country
54:57nima county were on a siege lima county
55:00became a badass room
55:01who are you fighting
55:04he sent all those equipment there
55:06and so those equipment were based in
55:09campbell and we decided to move on
55:10company
55:12we moved on cam player we
55:14on our way we captured one sodium who
55:16didn't know where he was going i had to
55:18look for power in the morning early in
55:19the morning we grabbed him and we
55:21interrogated him to tell us all the
55:23passwords
55:25and he told her the passwords
55:26and if you receive my picture today in
55:28the newspaper you will see me in the afl
55:31jacket and they the
55:33like there is a second emotional singer
55:35so we have all the singers for all the
55:36different battalions
55:38because many of them join us
55:40and so if you are headed and you know
55:42here and i'm coming towards you you
55:44would know truly that i'm i'm a
55:46different man in your uniform and said
55:48you think i'm yours i'm your own man
55:50accept the password so once you know the
55:52password in the message the income play
55:53the password
55:55when he said break say i think bringing
55:56christ is a dog
55:59so
56:00and that is how we we infiltrated
56:03and so we talked about complaining
56:06when a snapper hit my guns and he split
56:09her in half and caught my finger but i
56:11knew this finger to write a letter to
56:13char stella and gave her to target one
56:15tree and a group of commandos that i
56:17thought i could trust
56:19and i told them until they lie across
56:21the river to kind of inspect the
56:23facilities or what we have captured it
56:26should be executed at the border point
56:28i ordered taylor immediate execution i
56:31bought a point of view across because he
56:33lied to us he made our lives vulnerable
56:37and he was self-centered
56:39and i could not work with him
56:41because in libya i ask him look as a
56:44planning officer training officer when
56:46we take power what do we do
56:49do we take power and relinquish it in a
56:51democratic election or do we take power
56:54and cease and hold power and he said he
56:57answered me by asking me questions
56:59he answered us by asking more questions
57:02we are in libya not so we said yes sir
57:05son qaddafi took over 1969 from his
57:08uncle king idris has he turned
57:14[Music]
57:16when he took over as a sergeant
57:19himself in a
57:20a a
57:22qadhafi there were sergeants
57:24and when he talked about he hasn't
57:26turned power over he had demons himself
57:29he said no sir
57:31he said okay why should we take power
57:34and hand power he said look the scld
57:37acl he said a group of liberians in
57:40america
57:41he called names he called harry grieves
57:44he called men and he said these people
57:46on the other hand are giving us support
57:48financial support but they want me and
57:51you to go and sacrifice our lives
57:54you get injured in battle you get killed
57:56in battle they will come and give them
57:58he said to us monkey will now work in
58:00bamboo draw
58:02so we are not going to give power to any
58:04other liberia except for us we will take
58:06power and hold power under debt
58:10then he said to us again he said
58:11gentlemen
58:12i know that a lot of you
58:15that was before coming to liberia to
58:16evade you see i know a lot of you
58:19don't like me but you see you have a
58:20problem on hand i brought you for
58:22training and we're going to move the
58:23same door man i think bringing you here
58:26alone and training you alone you should
58:27forgive me for whatever you have in your
58:29mind against me
58:31and
58:32i want to tell you the story till i said
58:35he said in ethiopia when my gifts to
58:38harry mariel and a group of officers who
58:40were true
58:42alex lassie
58:44he killed all of them there was a step
58:46program to which all of them were to
58:48attend and all the provisional ruling
58:50council people gathered there waiting
58:51they heard
58:52their commander and chief will arrive he
58:54is the same group of men and they
58:56massacred those provisional ruling
58:58council men i don't know why he really
59:00meant when he said the story but he
59:01later said to us that it's not going to
59:03happen to you i'm not going to do it to
59:05you
59:07but why did you say the story but i
59:09later got to know in later years that he
59:12committed the brave men in combat always
59:14to die in war and wherever you are you
59:16are a strong man who captured so many
59:18targets he will continue sending you to
59:20more targets to that day he never
59:22trusted strong combatants he always
59:24isolated them
59:25he would prefer john delayed as a muslim
59:27who will kill debary and bring him
59:29closer
59:30he will prefer benjamin you turn who
59:31would lie on people you know like that
59:33those are the people he wanted
59:36so
59:37but because of all of these things i
59:39said i won't work with taylor so when
59:41turtle cross the border you'll get rid
59:43of him but he never got rid of him they
59:46instead told teller the story man the
59:48secret so taylor did not cross to
59:51liberia when i was at the border point
59:53it remained far away the only place
59:56across was from africa to berkeley at
59:58that time i had already come so far
1:00:01interplay and moving on to monrovia
1:00:03so many places are captured and left my
1:00:07objective was not to capture cease and
1:00:09hard my objective was monrovia our
1:00:12objective was morovia and you say you
1:00:14cannot move men of various ideas various
1:00:17behavior characters into combat without
1:00:20drawing or guidelines i drew out
1:00:23guidelines that is sop
1:00:26to govern the attendance of our men in
1:00:28combat if he raped his execution rate
1:00:31itself is his capital crime and you you
1:00:34you wouldn't want your daughter to be
1:00:36raped so don't rip anybody's eye
1:00:38so if you believe life is free avoid
1:00:40raping
1:00:41if you break people's homes to ski then
1:00:44you are as good as a man we are going to
1:00:46fight then you will pace you will face
1:00:48the penalty
1:00:50so these are some of the rules we had
1:00:53don't break banks if you break bounce
1:00:55you destroy the economy there is useless
1:00:57when the first amendment go
1:01:00so we got all of these guidelines and
1:01:02when you enter town don't tell people
1:01:04cutters
1:01:05don't tell people cars
1:01:07don't force women to sleep with them i
1:01:10know during the situation that they
1:01:11allow that they will want you
1:01:13so i mean those who come voluntarily
1:01:15out of fear for your ummah is up to them
1:01:17but don't force them so we drew our
1:01:19guidelines to govern our men in combat i
1:01:22thought the ucmj uniform for mental
1:01:24justice in libya for the past for the
1:01:27two years we were there and i took my
1:01:28spiritual forces commandos even when i
1:01:30broke away so i told them here is that
1:01:33choose it by doing all of this
1:01:35above and choose life by avoiding the
1:01:38above
1:01:39so that was the first thing i did
1:01:41that is to have command and control i
1:01:44had to put the guidelines in place
1:01:47and the men and women of the independent
1:01:49national computer reform non-responder
1:01:51came with me on my direct control i had
1:01:54control over men
1:01:56i had the right control over a man
1:01:59by a human being sometimes you can't
1:02:01tell then somebody will say i'm going to
1:02:02go urinate i'm going to go do this
1:02:04unless somebody came and told me
1:02:06why why the man over there this is what
1:02:08he did i wouldn't know what he has done
1:02:10so as i speak to you
1:02:14anyone here
1:02:16anybody
1:02:17who has something against even me
1:02:20who are something against anyone my man
1:02:23as was written in the letter addressed
1:02:25to me by tremendous office
1:02:28that
1:02:30while they were taking statements around
1:02:31the country people complaining of
1:02:33violating the rights
1:02:35i would like to know the violations that
1:02:37i carry out the violations of my main
1:02:40character because we save lives
1:02:43we say properties
1:02:45we
1:02:46were interested in the lives of our
1:02:48people
1:02:49when we came to monrovia
1:02:51hunger was everywhere
1:02:52people were eating casement dogs dogs
1:02:55finished in monrovia cat were finished
1:02:57in monrovia people resorted into eating
1:03:00flowers burgundy you could not fire fly
1:03:03left was very deplorable
1:03:06and i saw thousands and thousands of
1:03:08people offended and i promised them that
1:03:10i would take the port and bring food to
1:03:12you where the food was surplus i report
1:03:15i didn't keep the food for myself i fed
1:03:17the public i said even the internal
1:03:19government national unity all of these
1:03:21things we went through
1:03:22so i don't know where in the world we
1:03:24would be killing people at random while
1:03:26we say new quran bushwick karate and
1:03:28west point
1:03:30i do not understand why would we be
1:03:32killing people at random when government
1:03:35officials that would go up to the time
1:03:37we arrived like that naga like
1:03:41that of africa there were so many of
1:03:43them serena food someone out there who
1:03:46surrounded and came to save their lives
1:03:48were rescued by my men
1:03:50by my revolutionary forces so i do not
1:03:52know where we came wrong on our
1:03:54allegations that we massacre this we
1:03:56massacre
1:04:04question that will be posed to us by the
1:04:06commissioners over here
1:04:08so
1:04:09now back to the invasion
1:04:12so we broke away from taylor
1:04:14and we broke away we were thinking of a
1:04:17deed to adopt
1:04:18and i said because of
1:04:20general thomas krumper
1:04:22our former leader
1:04:25would not want to get any other
1:04:28different name but i will use the same
1:04:30name
1:04:31mpfl by unifor i
1:04:33implement
1:04:35our name piece for liberia
1:04:37now my independent national people at
1:04:39the front
1:04:40because we named peace for liberia we
1:04:43are bothered by the aircraft peace
1:04:44accord we removed samantha from office
1:04:47and installed an internal government
1:04:48held by that sawyer
1:04:50we were not ambitious we wrote a book
1:04:54the philosophy of the impfl the guns
1:04:57that liberation rule
1:04:59in there we specify
1:05:01why we fought enlargement while we
1:05:04fought with our blood and never took
1:05:06over and yet today
1:05:09those we saved
1:05:10those who redeemed
1:05:13those of us with our home there will be
1:05:15more internal government
1:05:17those of all were from home today we
1:05:19have who are riding the city and taken
1:05:21away by the force of guns can none today
1:05:23turn around and call us names
1:05:25and they may mean to leave this country
1:05:28to go into essa even yes they pursue me
1:05:32dr sarah pursue me and when they support
1:05:34a donkey arrow they they put me on a
1:05:36house arrest in nigeria for 9 months
1:05:39i will come to that
1:05:41because i need to explain all of this to
1:05:43here
1:05:44so when he comes tomorrow or day after i
1:05:46will hear what he will say
1:05:48and when he lie i will still come again
1:05:56and so
1:05:57we
1:05:58we adopted the name
1:06:00independent national temperature the
1:06:02front of liberia with all of our rules
1:06:05put into place
1:06:07and i told the men we are going to
1:06:08monrovia
1:06:10our objective is not to cease a rule our
1:06:13objective is to remove the government
1:06:16and
1:06:17an interim administration if we would
1:06:20like to contest to be president we must
1:06:21go through democratic means let the
1:06:23people of liberia decide
1:06:26but not to take guns and overthrow and
1:06:28compensate yourself with the truth
1:06:30so that was our objective
1:06:32so we came to monrovia
1:06:35we fought many battles
1:06:37we captured many galaxies
1:06:39and
1:06:41bunga many places we fought
1:06:44they're very interesting to also know
1:06:46that each group of our fighting two
1:06:48forces i was fighting npfl
1:06:52pushed him into door
1:06:53door two pushed me to tell her
1:06:56and i'm fighting afl for the
1:06:58npfl mpfl taylor 40 minute fighting afl
1:07:01at the same time
1:07:03and so
1:07:05during one of the battles
1:07:08i went to bed one day by six o'clock
1:07:11in the evening
1:07:13the cold breeze hit me and i failed to
1:07:15sleep and i had a dream a vision
1:07:18we're in quite well
1:07:20those are you being passing limba those
1:07:22two walkings that were parked there
1:07:24when you're going to tabata they are no
1:07:26longer there now so i i went to petrol
1:07:30because of the constant attacks for me
1:07:31by mpfl they will attack me every day
1:07:34blocking me from entering monrovia they
1:07:36did everything to prevent me from
1:07:38entering monrovia i never purposely
1:07:40plant military offense against npf
1:07:43because they were my boys i trained them
1:07:45but there was a one planning so an
1:07:47undecided that i would leave simondo
1:07:49alone and attack teller and block him
1:07:51from ever entering monrovia i would push
1:07:53me across the border
1:07:55so i went to petrol as we were playing
1:07:57cards and our food was on a fire
1:08:00the cold breeze came and hit me and i
1:08:02failed to sleep and in the sleep the
1:08:04voice spoke to me and said don't fight
1:08:06your brothers don't fight your brothers
1:08:09if you want war you are going to see the
1:08:11war early in the morning
1:08:12so i was surprised if you are telling me
1:08:14don't fight your brother and my brother
1:08:15and they tell the people and they are
1:08:17fighting me and you say don't fight them
1:08:19then
1:08:20who is coming to fight in the morning
1:08:21who am i going to meet in the morning
1:08:23and by the way who is speaking so i just
1:08:25talked about the voice of the of god or
1:08:26voice of the spirit
1:08:29so i told my man as soon as i got up the
1:08:31fool was still on the fire
1:08:32and i told my man well i just had a
1:08:34dream we are told not to fight our
1:08:36brothers we should go ahead but if we
1:08:38want what we see in the morning
1:08:40so by 5 30 in the morning saturday from
1:08:42the monroeville sir as i heard the sound
1:08:44of a power saw the air fell in the
1:08:47[Music]
1:08:49counterpart were
1:08:51cutting the power saw they were using
1:08:52the power saw to call the trees that
1:08:54were put on the road to block the tanks
1:08:56from coming to town and i said this is a
1:08:58word that the lord talked about so i put
1:09:00sufficient men in a bush with 33 gmg
1:09:04resume
1:09:06and i told them not to to shoot the
1:09:08hours in town and that when fire is
1:09:11initiated from entire they should open
1:09:13fire so the primer came in town he
1:09:16didn't see anybody
1:09:17another plateau came they said nobody
1:09:19another platoon came the
1:09:21fourth platoon came the last platoon
1:09:24the water came
1:09:26when the water came we opened fire on a
1:09:28rpg on the water blow it up then the
1:09:31battle started
1:09:33so those were the things you saw so we
1:09:35captured the things
1:09:37and
1:09:38war is not good
1:09:40when we saw the brothers we saw many of
1:09:42our colleagues
1:09:45together with whom we live with in
1:09:47liberia he can shuffling he came today
1:09:51but because a war protecting somebody's
1:09:53power
1:09:55we have to be faced with that situation
1:09:57combating each other
1:09:59even at a certain point in parallel
1:10:02we ambushed egypt
1:10:04when we went to
1:10:06inspect the body it was generally quite
1:10:07crew
1:10:09and uh after yanimu
1:10:11i think the brother uncle or father of
1:10:13the eisenhower
1:10:18[Music]
1:10:20i would not have ordered the fire
1:10:22because kraken was good to me when we
1:10:24were in the army he was a very quiet man
1:10:27there were times we went to him that not
1:10:29got to borrow money we say okay look
1:10:31johnson take this money and don't pay
1:10:32any intra take
1:10:34so i would not have been that evil to
1:10:35kill this man but it was as well and he
1:10:38was ambushed on a spectacular we don't
1:10:40know over there and so that's what
1:10:41happened
1:10:43so world is not good so we came to
1:10:45monrovia all the way
1:10:47we got to
1:10:48parallel from parallel where we armed
1:10:50with this jeep i'm talking about
1:10:51we passed in the bush to derail town
1:10:54not very not very far from banga because
1:10:57bangkok were heavily concentrated with
1:10:59the the afl troops have valid
1:11:01concentrated
1:11:03with deadly weapons
1:11:06until i was afraid to take banger we got
1:11:08the news we were hearing bang our stuff
1:11:11we sent people on reconnaissance they
1:11:13came back they said banger
1:11:15it's tough
1:11:16and i said okay
1:11:18so what we did was
1:11:19we
1:11:20the focus of the afl at the time was on
1:11:22nimba
1:11:24when emma bush moves for neymar fire
1:11:28everybody will focus so the owner
1:11:30franklin area was from ghana to uh
1:11:32phoebe area and to moravia so cars were
1:11:35moving freely from bangor to monrovia
1:11:38freely so we passed through davis town
1:11:41we all the way came on the bush and got
1:11:43to phoebe in the morning and then took
1:11:46a route to the barracks so the buyer was
1:11:49attacked at 5 30 in the morning
1:11:52we attacked the very fire today in the
1:11:54morning imploring every organic weapon
1:11:57we needed to quickly seize the barracks
1:12:01so we seized the barracks
1:12:02within a space of 40 minutes
1:12:05and so when the sodium in bangladesh
1:12:08heard the
1:12:09sporadic fight fires
1:12:12in and sporadic
1:12:15suppresses and sustained fire in the
1:12:17barracks
1:12:18they just gave up and said well our own
1:12:20colleagues have joined
1:12:22the rebels so no winner so they became
1:12:25thought to have the body those our
1:12:26interns were under attack by us they
1:12:28battled under attack so many people had
1:12:30to take out their clothes their uniform
1:12:32and fly to other guinea or wherever they
1:12:33went
1:12:35so the heart banger felt one banger fell
1:12:38we collected as many rounds
1:12:40of explosives we needed
1:12:42and then set remove the
1:12:45107.2105 ourselves our there will be a
1:12:47pin
1:12:49and then set the ammo dome on fire
1:12:52with a one or six rounds
1:12:54when no brokers were firing
1:12:56you could hear it in kakata
1:12:59so the airflow said the guns were
1:13:00brought were too sophisticated now they
1:13:02could not stand beginning to run away
1:13:05and then with all that there were many
1:13:07soldiers from the earth uh contingent
1:13:10that were prepared to die for the state
1:13:11we got their own obligation
1:13:13constitutional order to defend
1:13:15and they were defending well
1:13:17but what happened that i felt was a
1:13:20mistake on part of the
1:13:22the jonathan leader was that he is built
1:13:25to protect his power he ordered that all
1:13:28battalions to leave
1:13:29the country and congregate immoral
1:13:34so battalions moved from all over and
1:13:37moved from morovia leaving many
1:13:38battalions very empty
1:13:41so that they were pressed to the war
1:13:44so we took manga
1:13:46and passed and passed by wade or the
1:13:48bush
1:13:49there were many times we left the road
1:13:52because uh
1:13:54fighting two forces was not small thing
1:13:55to do
1:13:57it was very very tough very tough indeed
1:14:00so at times in order to be at ease to
1:14:02rest and relax
1:14:04we would use compass to make our own
1:14:06part in the bush
1:14:08and leave taylor and do it for the fight
1:14:10then we pass and we did all of that
1:14:12until we came to the white plains we
1:14:14came to johnsonville of course
1:14:16johnsonville we tell you we gave them
1:14:18food we secured a place
1:14:20we
1:14:21visited send out from there we promised
1:14:24them food
1:14:25in fact offender
1:14:28i will tell you a story
1:14:30there were many people in jail
1:14:33many people were injured were impressing
1:14:35their battalion forces upon taylor's
1:14:37order
1:14:37and they were to kill them that
1:14:39afternoon
1:14:40when we hit the place
1:14:42and took them by surprise
1:14:45you know commando launches a surprise
1:14:46attack and we did that successfully and
1:14:49captured fender and broke the jail
1:14:52they are not among those that were freed
1:14:54from the jail you know who was there
1:14:56secretary clinton
1:15:00god used me
1:15:01to free security cornell in my gringoman
1:15:05so that many years from that from that
1:15:07day he also could be used to flush out
1:15:10the detector testing to bring me home
1:15:14however
1:15:15for led
1:15:17on the commandership
1:15:18of the great man
1:15:20the mata the joe walley
1:15:22the
1:15:30this man who had a problem with
1:15:33chad danny all these good men it would
1:15:36not be possible
1:15:37for you people to sit here today
1:15:40not possible
1:15:42[Music]
1:15:43it will not be possible for me
1:15:46to come home
1:15:49[Music]
1:15:51to partake in the elections
1:15:54[Music]
1:15:56to be called
1:15:57a senior senator even when the united
1:16:00party dropped me
1:16:02by where the crook
1:16:05in sacramento
1:16:06my hometown
1:16:08and declared to the world that neighbor
1:16:10country
1:16:11had rejected princesses
1:16:16neymar country came out
1:16:18in the numbers to disprove
1:16:21those lies
1:16:23nimba counter came out and gave me the
1:16:25higher votes
1:16:27in the republic liberia making me the
1:16:29senior and those who engineer my phone
1:16:32in sacramento some of them become genius
1:16:34today
1:16:36those who didn't want to see me called
1:16:38honorable i'm honorable by the grace of
1:16:41god i am who i am
1:16:43and today
1:16:44the peace that i've been made possible
1:16:49by
1:16:50those who pick up the guns those great
1:16:52revolutionaries
1:16:54i think we should give credit to them
1:16:57the politicians
1:16:59should stop calling us names
1:17:04kill us
1:17:07after all
1:17:09as a son anymore a liberian and a
1:17:11revolutionary
1:17:14i didn't just come here shooting gun i
1:17:16didn't just come here fighting
1:17:18man people
1:17:20liberians my people nimbanians were on a
1:17:24siege
1:17:26i thought i had to fight
1:17:29we were pushed to the world
1:17:31when we did
1:17:32we were prepared to do
1:17:34when you have your wife you always beat
1:17:36you every day one day will slap you
1:17:39even if you're not able to beat you
1:17:42should resist
1:17:45you know the story of a 300 bearish 300
1:17:47berries
1:17:48300 children babies
1:17:51that were taken from their mother's
1:17:53bosom
1:17:54in nimba
1:17:56and brought here
1:17:57and paraded
1:17:59all over the streets of monrovia and
1:18:01eventually ndi dumping them alive in a
1:18:05well
1:18:06they failed the well the door regime
1:18:10the government are supposed to protect
1:18:12lives and properties of the people
1:18:14became the killers of the people
1:18:17i could not stand to see when people be
1:18:20wiped away
1:18:22one president though was on the radio
1:18:25telling the world member people should
1:18:26leave their home
1:18:28leave their home to go away
1:18:30i will kill them all to include their
1:18:32children no we want to survive
1:18:35we have the right to live
1:18:37the constitution of liberia gave us the
1:18:39right to live and gave you the right to
1:18:41defend us to protect us to secure us
1:18:44there was a still honor keep
1:18:46created by the regime
1:18:49and there were no
1:18:50choice left
1:18:52but to speak the same language of the
1:18:54bifurcas
1:18:57[Music]
1:18:58we were pushed to the world
1:19:00there were times in liberia there were
1:19:02times in monrovia you could see headless
1:19:05bodies
1:19:07brother one side they hate one side
1:19:09headless buddies and nimbanians
1:19:11the people on lima could not speak their
1:19:13own diets
1:19:14be a man or girl whenever they want to
1:19:17rent a house are you girl yeah no play
1:19:19for you because whatever are emmanuel
1:19:21rizala in mourinho they were the targets
1:19:25we were miserable
1:19:27our people were led to the slaughter of
1:19:29the chickens and slaughtered
1:19:33i had to come in the defense
1:19:37member country our home where on the
1:19:38seas were on a military occupation
1:19:41we had to flush them out of number and
1:19:43pursue the capital
1:19:46that's what we did
1:19:48and we came to la monrovia
1:19:51we talked about
1:19:52cartwheel
1:19:54and used cartwheel as a base
1:19:56to attack monrovia marina was very tough
1:19:58but we managed to take over to cross
1:20:00those two bridges you had to be tactical
1:20:03we lost men
1:20:04we lost great men and made us all rest
1:20:07in peace
1:20:08the politicians who fermented the
1:20:10trouble who fooled her who must let go
1:20:13they fled the country they could not
1:20:15come back until we brought them today
1:20:19they call us names today they talk about
1:20:22military i mean a tribunal to be
1:20:24established in morovia they call out
1:20:26perpetrators who are the perpetrators
1:20:29the guantanamo or a politician with the
1:20:31cash who made the best possible on the
1:20:32training
1:20:34who are the perpetrators
1:20:39so they should stop calling people names
1:20:43i i i went just journey when joe warren
1:20:46was speaking i admired your valley he
1:20:49made some selling points
1:20:51the war in africa had taken so many of
1:20:53our brothers of our children from here
1:20:55on our sides on that side
1:20:57you are living here on tambong i summon
1:21:00a defend minister of liberia to my
1:21:02office i'm the chair of national defense
1:21:04senate committee
1:21:06and i told him
1:21:08we are yakubas
1:21:09he here is called gil
1:21:11we are in touch with our people in
1:21:13africa our people are there
1:21:15the different different factions have
1:21:17different different librarians
1:21:19you have the first group of people here
1:21:21you have dismissed
1:21:22or you have retired or you have dancers
1:21:26and you're not catering to them
1:21:28job creation is very important after war
1:21:31calling names
1:21:33ugly names attached to combatants who
1:21:35fought to defend you to bring you to
1:21:37bring peace will not help us
1:21:40[Music]
1:21:42investors to come
1:21:43open the door for more employment
1:21:46no employment is taking place while we
1:21:48see every ministry done something the
1:21:50intelligence we are sucking people to
1:21:52replace it with their own people from
1:21:53the diaspora
1:21:56that should stop
1:21:58because the people who are going to
1:21:59avocados if it is true from the
1:22:01intelligence we receive they are
1:22:03watching what is happening here they are
1:22:05hearing what is happening here they are
1:22:07in touch with their colleagues
1:22:08the new army we are forming to defend
1:22:10this country know that there was an army
1:22:11in place that defended the congress so
1:22:13many hundred years
1:22:14the way you would treat them they would
1:22:16tell you to nowhere to
1:22:17what you do to the old army they would
1:22:19think to mother you'll do it again you
1:22:21got to be careful what you do job
1:22:24creation is most essential
1:22:26otherwise poverty is alleviation or
1:22:29poverty eradication is a mercury
1:22:32it doesn't go to the poverty
1:22:35eradication it's not only appearing
1:22:36roads
1:22:39it's not painting roads it's creating
1:22:41jobs
1:22:42and the people can get three meals a day
1:22:44to eat
1:22:45no problem
1:22:46but many politicians
1:22:48bad politicians they believe that when
1:22:51they come back they are suffering they
1:22:52know what they should infinite when they
1:22:54got nothing to do then they're weak then
1:22:55they tire no
1:22:57a hungry man is an angry man and an
1:23:00angry man will disturb you
1:23:02we don't want disturbance
1:23:04so we need to work
1:23:07when there was patrol chartered a hike
1:23:09in price
1:23:11i talked to harry grieves harry griez
1:23:13who brought my first cousin to liberia
1:23:15general thomas columba harold griez who
1:23:18may want to leave his home in the united
1:23:19states and brought him and died and left
1:23:22his family suffering he's not doing
1:23:23anything to help the family back there
1:23:25he assassinated i went to him and said
1:23:27look mr griez i am terrible from kuwait
1:23:30to bring 5 million metro ton of gasoline
1:23:33every month if i bring a pass over my
1:23:35business i want to help i want to help
1:23:37so that i can equally help your
1:23:39government as a day in the past i
1:23:40donated drugs when i came from brussels
1:23:42i did that
1:23:43but these people don't want you to get
1:23:45money they wanted to suffer and they
1:23:47cannot enjoy our sweat
1:23:49it's very bad so you're the trc
1:23:52tell authority they're doing good the
1:23:54old lady is always doing very fine but
1:23:56the clocks then that are around
1:24:00the better you do better
1:24:02the government is moving on good footing
1:24:04but they should teach
1:24:06they should bring good idea on board
1:24:09the president is old is getting much
1:24:12older they will not want to leave by
1:24:13legacy
1:24:14i am of the convention she will leave
1:24:16personal legacy but don't go crooks let
1:24:18me tell you for example how would you be
1:24:20expressive of liberia or interim
1:24:22president requires president then you
1:24:23come again to begin a good governor
1:24:25commission with good governor commission
1:24:27when you are ahead of state of the
1:24:28interim
1:24:29you printed money samurai
1:24:32and that morning baron was not confirmed
1:24:34by the legislature if a man is dominated
1:24:36and not confirmed how did he sign the
1:24:38legal tender note
1:24:41all of these things
1:24:42then they come back and say with all
1:24:43that library cannot run so they begin to
1:24:45recycle what if you were to if you
1:24:47brought back that the email sorry i mean
1:24:49good governance commission bring back
1:24:51your former head start to bring my music
1:24:53blah from the united states too rude
1:24:55barry cannot be brought because she's
1:24:56not where why are you pick and choose
1:25:01from what came and told me
1:25:21a few days after talking about
1:25:24mourinho few days after taking ramorovia
1:25:28i was contacted by the diplomatic
1:25:30institution
1:25:32and we discussed and i was informed that
1:25:35sameedor wanted to enter a truce with me
1:25:38and i was also asked if i wanted to see
1:25:41the ambassador of that country i'm
1:25:43talking about which i will not name
1:25:46and i i consented
1:25:48and i met the ambassador and we
1:25:50discussed what the school had to do with
1:25:53peace what the score had to do with
1:25:55supporting the equals peace initiative
1:25:58and i clearly committed myself to it and
1:26:00i said i would not violate the equal
1:26:02peace plan for liberia i would support
1:26:03it and so i left the ambassador and i
1:26:05was giving a
1:26:06motorola the reason i was giving the
1:26:09motorola to try to
1:26:10to control
1:26:12the gaming motorola the goalteller
1:26:13motorola they gave dual motorola but in
1:26:15the in the interim they had interest in
1:26:17installing taylor as president
1:26:20they were interested in taylor
1:26:22and they only gave the motorola to
1:26:23monitor me a monitor door but their
1:26:25intro was chancellor
1:26:26and what what what i was told that i had
1:26:28that i i comply with also was that when
1:26:31i took my missile on the duke hill and
1:26:34pointed to the embankment bbc to fire i
1:26:37was told that many civilians are taking
1:26:38refuge there and i shouldn't shoot it
1:26:40would be considered massacre or genocide
1:26:43so i comply with that i didn't do it
1:26:46so taylor two was almost at a
1:26:50university we were at duke or we were at
1:26:52the football field
1:26:54none of us could go on the ground that
1:26:55the place was overcrowded with civilians
1:26:57and entering that mansion would be
1:26:59deadly it would be it would cause the
1:27:00devil so many civilians and children and
1:27:03we shouldn't do that so all of us obey
1:27:04it was not a weakness
1:27:06because if you if we could
1:27:08fight
1:27:10this battle from the border of africa to
1:27:12monrovia who else will stop you
1:27:15everything you employ in the combat you
1:27:17could important to enter even if it
1:27:19meant bombardment
1:27:21but we didn't do it we had to consider
1:27:23human lives
1:27:25so within that period
1:27:28having controlled me
1:27:30something
1:27:31because i was told also that one
1:27:32selectors were going to come to me
1:27:35so sally thompson came to me and saw the
1:27:37idea
1:27:38of a truth widow
1:27:41as proposed by the embassy and i agree
1:27:46i sincerely agree
1:27:49and we met him at a douglas church
1:27:52and we discussed and i thought thompson
1:27:54well go and test my do i agree
1:27:56he went to the mansion and discussed
1:27:58that and they were very happy because he
1:28:00was engulfed on all sides
1:28:04and the next day thompson came to me
1:28:08and told me
1:28:10to draft the
1:28:12peace the truth
1:28:14and i said you dropped it he drafted it
1:28:18i amanda it
1:28:20and then he took the door
1:28:22to see
1:28:23and he brought it
1:28:26but
1:28:27in that agreement
1:28:29we agreed to join forces to fire command
1:28:33whether i was really
1:28:35in position to fight a commander i made
1:28:37to come here
1:28:38[Music]
1:28:40or not where there was no business
1:28:43to determine that
1:28:46whether i who brought august or august
1:28:4824 90 the peacekeeping force for all
1:28:51africa whether our sun people would go
1:28:54to fight peacekeeping force
1:28:56then he will have business to determine
1:28:58whether i will be truthful to that truth
1:29:00or not truthful
1:29:03[Music]
1:29:05and
1:29:08we agree that all the charges level
1:29:11against me when i fled the country for
1:29:13treason to be dropped
1:29:19and
1:29:21many will discuss a mutual understanding
1:29:24and though okay in the final draft he
1:29:27okay it was finally tapped and brought
1:29:29to me
1:29:30and we took it to eccomo headquarters
1:29:33i gave it to them
1:29:35the place where
1:29:36it was mentioned that we should join
1:29:38forces to fight ekkomo the economist
1:29:41said that in the agreement
1:29:43and when sally thompson left they called
1:29:45me
1:29:46they said they're coming to see me
1:29:48they say is it true that you and don't
1:29:50join to fight on your
1:29:53but in reality i cannot fight you
1:29:56because if
1:29:57you know your military mind is safe it's
1:29:59one thing and then if i want to go to
1:30:01any african country it will not be
1:30:03possible if i join you to kill to do to
1:30:05kill you know
1:30:06the peacekeepers
1:30:08so i said that is not going to work with
1:30:10me
1:30:11so you trust me you depend on me said it
1:30:14wasn't afraid
1:30:17so that tree was signed
1:30:19in the truth we mentioned that
1:30:21whenever a wrecking officer from dosa
1:30:23wanted to visit me i should be notified
1:30:27and the same with my group too he should
1:30:29be notified
1:30:31[Music]
1:30:32and though give me more ammunitions
1:30:36in our bed to fight echo more requested
1:30:38for more ammunitions
1:30:41and uh i gave him fire i think 500 back
1:30:44of rice
1:30:46because this was the he needed food
1:30:50and so
1:30:51[Music]
1:30:53there was a schedule
1:30:55according to the agreement from
1:30:56university bdc
1:31:00so i visited that bbc that was the first
1:31:02time face to face we met after standing
1:31:05the truth
1:31:06where he said that the ecommerce was a
1:31:09cra creation
1:31:13and that is being placed under attack
1:31:16because the cia
1:31:19don't like development in liberia
1:31:23they like the american liberian to build
1:31:25houses to buy houses abroad with a
1:31:26country for money to steal and care
1:31:28abroad but he though was taking ministry
1:31:31out of other government homes and making
1:31:33development they didn't like that
1:31:35so they want to kill him
1:31:40and he said to me i did not stay here to
1:31:42fight you i still have to say no to
1:31:45america librarian rule translator
1:31:48that's why i stay here
1:31:49[Music]
1:31:51among many things we
1:31:53agreed on
1:31:56then
1:31:57i left
1:31:58and another meeting was scheduled
1:32:00september 6
1:32:02between september 5 and 6.
1:32:04this time to the mansion
1:32:09as time was approaching for my second
1:32:11visit to the mansion
1:32:14i got word
1:32:16from sally something
1:32:21don't forget that senator something
1:32:24was a mediator
1:32:26and he was not prepared
1:32:29[Music]
1:32:30to agree with many things that others
1:32:32were turning to continue fighting he
1:32:33would prepare for real peace
1:32:38so i got word for sally something that
1:32:40don't come
1:32:41don't come to the mansion
1:32:44there is a plot
1:32:46to open a corridor
1:32:50from the sda church when you enter
1:32:51booster quarter you claim the
1:32:53information service you go there
1:32:55to the mason you will not see though
1:32:57where you're supposed to meet him in
1:32:59midnight they will open fire on you
1:33:00there and you will not come back with a
1:33:02quarter because you'll be suppressive
1:33:04fire
1:33:08i was not in the meeting
1:33:10whether this is true
1:33:11not true
1:33:13the first law of nature being
1:33:14self-preservation i had to be serious
1:33:21so i say oh thompson it doesn't say yeah
1:33:23don't call my name
1:33:26and since that time yesterday i'm
1:33:27calling the name
1:33:29you got a true commission we are we are
1:33:31present
1:33:33and all alone
1:33:35those did not know
1:33:38so the um
1:33:43expecting though
1:33:45decided
1:33:46to visit the port
1:33:49because
1:33:51when the peacekeepers came they failed
1:33:53to pay a vessel on him to him they paid
1:33:56to visit though they paid they failed to
1:33:59pay cut a second
1:34:01so they said i'm the commander
1:34:02commander-in-chief i don't know what
1:34:04you're able to see
1:34:06and these people say they were coming
1:34:07here to help me
1:34:09to bring peace
1:34:10how come they'd be here over one week
1:34:13two weeks they don't know who they call
1:34:14the town
1:34:16or the town chief and they sat down
1:34:18there in your area they don't want to
1:34:20come to pay me because they say call
1:34:2330 years
1:34:24they came to move me
1:34:27okay i will go one day i will go there
1:34:30and deal with these people
1:34:32so senator's visit
1:34:35to
1:34:36the port
1:34:39was
1:34:40internet
1:34:43to
1:34:45to question
1:34:47to question ecomo as the one that came
1:34:49and failed to pay calico whether they
1:34:51did not recognize him as a head of state
1:34:53[Music]
1:34:55that was a visited put
1:34:58i will come to that so my visit to the
1:35:01master i have been told that i was a
1:35:02plot to open corridor for me to pass and
1:35:04then close me up
1:35:07i don't know how possible that could
1:35:08have been
1:35:10because i have men well
1:35:12equipped caterpillar inclined
1:35:17brave strong and intelligent commandos
1:35:21we were willing to die for
1:35:23this country to die for the leader
1:35:30and whenever i move
1:35:33i move well prepared
1:35:37so that would have been disastrous
1:35:39because to fight in your own house if
1:35:42they're not fighting in my house
1:35:44if you invite me
1:35:46and fight
1:35:47and fight me then that's the end
1:35:52because you did not came into the border
1:35:54why would you give me moravia
1:35:59without a manpower
1:36:01all those heavy crew guards that were in
1:36:03neutral westbrook
1:36:05oh what journey
1:36:08i had a strong muscle guy
1:36:11[Music]
1:36:13the afl-2 came to me in a thousand
1:36:16because that's my mother-in-law
1:36:20that's my mother unit
1:36:23[Music]
1:36:25i congratulate them for defending this
1:36:27nation up to the last with the blood but
1:36:31they are no longer recognized
1:36:38and so
1:36:40i abandoned my mission to the mansion
1:36:43i stayed on my side
1:36:46a summer door came that morning
1:36:48he came according to him when he was
1:36:50before me being questioned
1:36:53he said he essentially told me
1:36:55to tell me that he was coming to see me
1:36:58he kept me with the truth
1:37:01but sally thompson
1:37:02already
1:37:04i made a deal with the peacekeeping
1:37:05force to taking all the country
1:37:08by my my my my territory
1:37:11so you are not in any more position in
1:37:14position anymore to come be a messenger
1:37:18so when sally thompson came to tell me
1:37:23he did not tell me he went straight
1:37:26to the peacekeeping force
1:37:28to take refuge
1:37:31so while i was thinking that though
1:37:34intruded
1:37:35that he validated the truth
1:37:38that we signed
1:37:39though has sent something to let me know
1:37:41that he was coming
1:37:45but i didn't know
1:37:47and i was at the island clinic
1:37:51visiting the civilians
1:37:53that were hit by mr simba chastella on
1:37:56besides sembado
1:37:58i opened that clinic i helped that
1:38:00diametry remove more drugs
1:38:03from silicon drugs
1:38:06gaming by utah pharmacy
1:38:10and we were paying the doctors then the
1:38:12redemption hospital we provided a
1:38:15military campaign
1:38:16we get food from a silicon drugs many
1:38:18clinics in town that the cassettes
1:38:21clinics the korean man i was on kelly
1:38:24street
1:38:26forgotten his name he's no longer here
1:38:28we help people a lot
1:38:31but we cannot say with the holy spirit
1:38:34or we clean people
1:38:35but we did a lot
1:38:38to help
1:38:40and so
1:38:42they all came to the port
1:38:45and our soldiers that were stationed at
1:38:47the port
1:38:49saying that me i said door is here
1:38:54and
1:38:55[Music]
1:38:56he said i speak today's commanding
1:38:58officer
1:38:59[Music]
1:39:02and i spoke to the commanding officer
1:39:04from another african country who nema
1:39:06kaneko
1:39:10nakueno of course not
1:39:13and he said daughter is here are you
1:39:15aware i said no i'm not away
1:39:19so i said why did you come to my
1:39:20territory and broke the truth regarding
1:39:22me so i'm coming
1:39:25i sent for more reinforcements for my
1:39:27days
1:39:29and they joined me
1:39:31without a report
1:39:33we didn't get a report shooting
1:39:35[Music]
1:39:37but we saw assembly
1:39:40assembly i think was the captain of
1:39:42connelly what we do
1:39:44i knew many years back
1:39:46he was a central mansion
1:39:49though was upset and somebody was
1:39:51sitting in the car downstairs
1:39:55and
1:39:58i asked him sir
1:40:00why did you people come here and you
1:40:01didn't tell me dude are you another one
1:40:03i would sand truth
1:40:04[Music]
1:40:07are you not aware of the same truth
1:40:12he said
1:40:13truth will revel
1:40:15kanaho
1:40:17sitting in his car
1:40:20i say get up
1:40:23and give me courtesy
1:40:26he said to him
1:40:27[Music]
1:40:29i said okay you're this i'm just my hair
1:40:31same hair gun
1:40:33there you
1:40:34are to take my gun for me
1:40:38in that space that i ordered two groups
1:40:42want to deal with the good our
1:40:43downstairs and want to go upstairs and
1:40:45deal with the good i would also
1:40:47honor all the peacekeeping forces
1:40:49there their commanders to come down put
1:40:52their hands on their head and march
1:40:54inside the ship
1:40:58from winning to all the officers get on
1:41:01board
1:41:03[Music]
1:41:06and that's what happened the gun onboard
1:41:07the ship
1:41:10and
1:41:12fighting started
1:41:15i must say in this public manner that
1:41:20the peacekeeping force
1:41:21had a military capability
1:41:33it's going to one o'clock do you want
1:41:35some water not that good
1:41:41my water
1:42:02hello officer
1:42:04please could you take care of the people
1:42:05up
1:42:12there you

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