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Article: Watching rights. (human rights in Liberia, Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, South Africa) (column)
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- The Nation
- Article date:
- September 17, 1990
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WATCHING RIGHTS.
The war in Liberia, in which rival rebel forces led by Charles Taylor and Prince Johnson have been trying to destroy each other and overthrow the regime of President Samuel Kanyon Doe, has turned into a nightmare for that small West African nation's civilian population. Much of the country has been laid waste. Hundreds of thousands have had to flee their homes and thousands of noncombatants have been murdered, including many women and children who had taken shelter in churches and in settlements under the protection of the International Committee of the Red Cross. Members of the Gio and Mano tribes have been massacred by government troops because ...
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