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Article: History and hope: Liberia's battle.
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- October 9, 1996
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THIS PAST spring, scenes of drugged boy soldiers killing and looting on the streets of ravaged Monrovia were regular fare on the evening news. Those images and reports of Liberia's horrific war have since disappeared from our news media. What has not disappeared is the desperate situation of those affected by the war, including hundreds of thousands of internally displaced people and refugees.
The population of Liberia has dropped almost in half since the war began. Meanwhile, mediators from countries belonging to the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) seek disarmament and a return to security in a land plagued by violence since late 1989.
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