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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 Monrovia Church massacre, also referred to as the St. Peter's Lutheran Church massacre, was the worst single atrocity of the First Liberian Civil War.Approximately 600 people were killed at the church, on 14th Street, in the Sinkor district of Monrovia on 29 July 1990.
LURD child fighter -A child soldier of the Liberian rebel group LURD at the Po River (2004). The First Liberian Civil War began in 1989, when Charles Taylor's National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL) forces invaded the country in rebellion against the regime of Samuel Doe, who came to power through the 1980 Liberian coup d'état.
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Because in the war – people are scattered everywhere and those that are living in different areas won't know about this. — M, survivor of the Maher Bridge [ 1 ] A number of witnesses to the massacre gave testimonies to the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) .
The mass killings after the clashes drove hundreds of Krahn to flee the country; some of these exiles, namely ex-ULIMO fighters, eventually began an insurgency against Taylor that would escalate into the Second Liberian Civil War.
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Still, Boley's influence on the civil war continuing in Liberia during the 1990s persisted, U.S. officials believed, causing his eventual deportation from the United States in 2012.