Charles Taylor Trial to begin on Monday after six month delay........

The trial of the former Liberian dictator Charles Taylor is slated to begin on Monday the 7th of January. The former dictator is accused of orchestrating mass murder, rape and mutilation during Liberia's and Sierra Leone's civil war, in his quest for diamonds and seeking to destabilize not only the Freetown government, but the whole sub-region to boost his own influence throughout West Africa. The chief UN Prosecutor Stephen Rapp said An insider once close to former Liberian President Charles Taylor who can link him to atrocities committed in Sierra Leone will be among the first witnesses in Taylor's trial.




Here is ABC nightline news report on the Liberian civil war.
This fool atrocities against the peoples of Liberia, and Sierra Leone in the name of Liberation will never be forgotten, In Sierra Leone, a generation of civilian amputees -- their hands or legs hacked off by rebels -- are a painful reminder of the cruelty and brutality of his war, in which drugged rebels often child soldiers, killed, raped and maimed, innocent people. In Liberia stories of his men cutting pregnant women open to determine the sex of the unborn child is also well known, as well as his thugs eating and using the intestines and other organs of their victims to make their checkpoints. Meanwhile the Association for the Legal Defense of Charles Taylor headed by John T. Richardson, will be hosting a A special prayer and thanksgiving service for the accused former Liberian leader in Monrovia ahead of the January 7, trial.

He show no mercy to his victims,let none be given

His brutality against even babies, is hard to comprehend

I swear these rebels have no shame, after all the people these bastard killed, almost 300,000 in Liberia and God knows how many more in Sierra Leone, they have the audacity to invoke God's name, why the hell is John T. Richardson, Grace Minor, and Jewel Taylor still doing running around Monrovia? they should all, along with kromah, George Boley, and Conteh be drag before the world's court.We will never forget what you bastards did to our country, neither will we forget what you did to the children of our country. I hope Charles taylor rot in hell were he belongs, he showed no mercy to his victims, the Liberian people should not show any mercy to him, after all do unto others as you would want them to do unto you, These bastards don't deserve to breath the same air we breath.

Those good old days .........

Sorry folks i have been so busy lately with school,work and my kid i hardly have time to blog like i used to. anyway i was looking for some old Liberian music on the Internet and i came across this Miatta Fabullah video from the 80s. man how time flies, i was a kid then, but watching this video just brought back tons of good memories. it pains me when most of our people come to the states, and forget who they are, or where they came from,sometimes i even sense they are ashamed to be call Liberians, our old folks used to say when the old lady eye spoil, she cannot borrow another one from someone else. Liberia was once a great country, but fell upon hard times, she will again be a great country.




for all you oldtimers i hope this brought joy to your hearts as it did mine.

Arcelor Mittal to increase its investment in Liberia .

The Chairman of the world's largest Steel Company Mr Lakshmi Mittal told a news conference in Monrovia that his company was increasing its investment in the country from US $1-billion to US $1.5-billion dollars. Mr. Mittal who is in the country as a guest of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf also told reporters his company is willing to expand its activities beyond the mining sector to share its expertise in other areas including the country’s power sector. Mr Mittal praised President Sirleaf for the progress the government continues to make since she assumed the leadership of the country and said he was pleased to associate with the President. “There is positive feeling about Liberia out there,” he acknowledged, assuring the President of full and direct commitment to the project. “We have to ensure that this project is successful because it will be a model for the future.
This news could not have come at a better time, the country is still recovering from almost two decades of civil war, the economy is in shambles, unemployment is at an all time high, and with electricity and sanitation almost nonexistent, this was indeed good news for the Liberian people. with these strings of good news lately, be it debt cancellation, Investments like the one announced by Arcelor Mittal today, or the huge outpouring of goodwill that the Liberian leader continues to get from the world's community, the Liberian nation might well be on her way to reclaiming her glory.

Trip to New york in Pictures

After almost 9 hours delayed by the airline,(northwest)at the Minneapolis St Paul airport, i was about to cancel my trip and go back home, i was so pissed, i knew northwest airline had a reputation for delays, but i was willing to give them the benefit of the doubt, for one because the airline, is based out of Minneapolis, so the thought was why not support the airline from your state first, but boy that was a huge mistake on my part,i was tired, i was hungry, and like hell i was pissed,i am never ever flying northwest again.i did however take a couple of pictures for my blog.

I toke this picture on the ferry that runs between Staten island and Manhattan.

Downtown Manhattan

inside the train that runs in the subway.

View of Manhattan skyline

These are pictures i took of 42 and Broadway in new york.

Thats the statue of Liberty in the background.

New york has its pros and cons, there where some things i liked and some i did not like, for one i thought, there were just too many people, all my life growing up as a kid in Monrovia, Liberia, i have never seen so many people in one place, i was even surprise to see a huge Liberian community in the Staten island area, we have a lot of Liberians here in Minnesota, but it was great to meet so many of my country men in another state. so would i give up Minnesota, to live in New York, hmmmmm.... let me just say, i am glad to be back home.

Mass graves found in Liberia.

The Associated press is reporting that Liberian Officials have confirmed the presence in Liberia of mass graves which are believed to hold the remains of people massacred during the civil war. A team headed by Jerome Verdier, chairman of Liberia's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the national commission investigating human rights violations during the country's 2 decades of civil war visited the four villages where the graves are located. Among the villages "some of the survivors narrated horrible and gruesome stories of the atrocities committed against them by various warring factions during the Liberian conflict.Verdier said villagers told his team they wanted the bodies exhumed and reburied. He said while that was not his commission's role, it would try to help villagers who want to give proper burials to those massacred. The smallest grave the commission visited held 78 bodies; the largest contained as many as 500, according to Verdier.


Liberia's truth commission, patterned after a similar commission established in 1995 to examine human rights abuses in South Africa, offers victims an opportunity to air their grievances and create a historical record.

It cannot conduct criminal trials, but can recommend that some people be prosecuted.
Some 250,000 Liberians are believed to have been killed in the fighting between 1990 and 2003, when former President Charles Taylor bowed to international pressure and went into exile. He is now imprisoned in The Hague, Netherlands, awaiting trial on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Kerper Dwanyen elected President of the organization of Liberians in Minnesota.

Kerper A. Dwanyen President Elect

After weeks of mud slinging and allegations of gross human rights violations during the Liberian civil war against some of, or at least one of the candidate running for the presidency of the Organization of Liberians in Minnesota, Liberians in Minnesota elected Kerper Dwanyen as their new leader. Dwanyen who onced headed the Nimba Redemption Council, during Liberia’s civil war, was accused by some of his opponent as a rebel who was involved in atrocities against innocent civilians. But at approximately 2:15 a.m Monday, when the last ballot was counted, it was clear Dwanyen had been elected president with 793 votes. The incumbent, Martha Sinoe, came in a distant second with 436 votes, followed by Wynfred Russell (257) and Jackson George (229).
Let us hope that now the new leadership of the organization will really get to the business of working for Liberians who called Minnesota home. The first thing the new leadership should address is the constant negative news about the Liberian community in Minnesota, at almost all Liberian gatherings, there are always reports of fights and drugs, this is really sad, and if something is not done about this problem, all of us stand to have our good names ruin by these thugs.

Making the case for Liberia to host Africom.

The US government announced early in the year that the Defence Department was creating a US Africa Command headquarters to coordinate all American military and security interests throughout the continent, but a lot of African powers Including Nigeria, South Africa, and Libya have expressed reservations about a move that could signal an expansion of U.S. influence on the continent. Why is it that so many African powers are against The United states setting up its African commend on an African soil? the answer is simple, African nations, at least those run by dictators, like Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe don't want more Americans, and their democratic ideas, upsetting the status quo. and in their effort to stay in power, and continue stealing from their country's Treasury, they have come up with pitiful excuses like, any AFRICOM facilities on African territory, will be a magnet that will attract terrorist to attack their countries.
Liberia on the other hand, has announce publicly that it is willing to host Africom, coming out out of almost two decades of civil war, and with our infrastructure, and economy in shambles, there is no telling that Several hundred, or even thousand, well paid American soldiers and civilians, would work wonders for the economy. and not to mention the huge financial incentive, and the creation of thousands of jobs that would come with Africom requests for basing rights.
Another reason we Liberians should welcome Africom is because it would give pause to any future rebel group, or military commanders contemplating a coup.
There is no reason what so ever to fear Africom, i believe they will be a force for good on the continent, that's why we wholeheartedly support our President, to not only bid that Africom be base on the continent, but we also support her effort to have Liberia host Africom.