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Article: MONROVIA HAS COLLAPSED UNDER FIGHTING Airlift of Americans from Liberia likely Thousands of residents flee capital, seek refuge within U.S. Embassy
- Article from:
- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- April 9, 1996
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As intense fighting between rival warlord factions raged through
this Liberian capital, the U.S. Embassy prepared on Monday night for
an airlift rescue of hundreds of Americans and other foreigners
trapped in the chaos.
Just a few months after Monrovia was celebrating a rebirth of
hope following one of Africa's most vicious wars, the capital has
collapsed in three days back into a fierce new state of lawlessness.
Thousands of people have deserted the city in panic, and an
estimated 20,000 more Liberians have thronged into a residential
annex of the American Embassy, which is the main Western presence in
this country founded by freed American slaves.
The American ambassador, William ...