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Charles McArthur Ghankay Taylor (born 28 January 1948) is a Liberian former politician and convicted war criminal who served as the 22nd president of Liberia from 2 August 1997 until his resignation on 11 August 2003 as a result of the Second Liberian Civil War and growing international pressure.
Liberia: An Uncivil War, (also as Liveria: O pio skliros emfylios), is a 2004 American-Liberian documentary TV movie co-directed Jonathan Stack and James Martin Brabazon. [1] The film was co-produced by both directors: James Brabazon and Jonathan Stack for Gabriel Films. [ 2 ]
The Civil War received more than 40 major film and television awards, including two Emmy Awards, two Grammy Awards (one for Best Traditional Folk Album), the Producer of the Year Award from the Producers Guild of America, a People's Choice Award, a Peabody Award, a duPont-Columbia Award, a D. W. Griffith Award, and the $50,000 Lincoln Prize.
The siege of Monrovia or Fourth Battle of Monrovia, which occurred in Monrovia, Liberia between July 18 and August 14, 2003, was a major military confrontation between the Armed Forces of Liberia and Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy (LURD) rebels during the Second Liberian Civil War. The shelling of the city resulted in the ...
The Civil War is a 1990 American television documentary miniseries created by Ken Burns about the American Civil War.It was the first broadcast to air on PBS for five consecutive nights, from September 23 to 27, 1990.
He first gained attention as the only journalist to film the LURD rebel group fighting to overthrow President Charles Taylor during the Second Liberian Civil War. [3] While in Liberia, Brabazon encountered South African mercenary Nick du Toit and hired him as his bodyguard. [4] Brabazon’s memoir My Friend the Mercenary recounts his ...
LURD commander "Gen. Cobra" with his guards . The First Liberian Civil War ended in August 1997 when Charles Taylor took power as the President of Liberia.Taylor had initiated the war when he and his militia, the National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL), invaded the country from the Ivory Coast to overthrow President Samuel Doe in December 1989.
The First Liberian Civil War was the first of two civil wars within the West African nation of Liberia which lasted between 1989 and 1997. President Samuel Doe 's regime of totalitarianism and widespread corruption led to calls for withdrawal of the support of the United States , by the late 1980s. [ 2 ]