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OPPOSITION TO THE PENDING DEPLOYMENT OF SOUTH AFRICAN
TROOPS IN LIBERIA TO SERVE AS PEACE KEEPERS IN LIBERIA
I am a Liberian writing from Ghana, and I would like to express my strong opposition to the pending deployment of South African troops to serve as peace keepers in Liberia. My opposition comes as a result of fear due to the HIV/AIDS rate among the South Africa population. It was announce yesterday by the BBC in which the South African Defense minister said that 1/5th of the South African soldiers are HIV positive. I am afraid that if the troops are deployed AIDS will spread at an alarming rate in Liberia, as the soldiers will definitely take Liberian girls as girlfriends. BBC we do welcome the moral and financial contribution of South Africa but for the sake of our people health, let the soldiers stay. It is better to solved the war of arm attack and bloodshed that man has control over, than to bring peace to Liberia and start another war on HIV/AIDS for which there is no cure. Please South African we do not hate you, you are our dearest african brothers.

Thank you

This article presents a full pictorial coverage of the Liberian civil war in picture. Navigating the website below www.geocities.com/kebbieslab . I am optimistic each and everyone of you that read this article will be touch and join in the universal call for the resolution of conflict around the globe.
This site also contain some vital information about Liberia, talk about culture, education etc.
As your soul and mind will be touch by picture presented on this website regarding devastating civil war in Liberian, it is my hope that all of us will in one way or another serve as peace ambassadors for the prevention and resolution in this world we find we find ourselves in.

As you and I see these pictures, I want us to ask ourselves the following question:
What can I contribute for world peace?
Is violence (war) the only medium for conflict resolution?
As a citizen of this world, does war affect me directly or indirectly?

I am quite sure we are all highly saddened by the continuous state of war and the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Liberia.
As a Liberian, I do join all peace loving citizens of the world to congratulate the efforts of the United Nations, Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the United States etc, as they strives for an end to the war in Liberia.

Special thanks goes to the Journalists that cover that Liberian war, also to all the owners of websites that I was able to get some of the photos from, BBC, CNN, YAHOO and AP.
I am in need of a web master that will give me a helping to complete this site.

In the wake of the on going fighting in Monrovia and the intensive bombarment on the capital city thus leading to the death of innocent civilans (most espcially WOMEN AND CHILDREN), there are some positive news coming out of the Accra Peace Talks.

The New Democratic Alternative for Liberia Movement (the New Deal Movement), has said it will support a neutral personality as the interim head of state.

A communiqué issued by the movement in Accra said Liberians want “one having no political ambition, one who has no blood on his hand”. It made it clear that “Liberians will not support anyone who has taken arms directly or indirectly against the Liberian people”.

The communiqué called on the delegates at the Accra Peace Talks to be open minded and consider peace, stability, dignity and democratic virtues as being pivotal to the ultimate interest of Liberia, its people and the West African sub-region as a whole.

The movement stressed that Liberians are all at a critical junction of their existence as people.
“We can act as patriots and transform our native land by decisions to exist in poverty, backwardness and dependency”, it said.

The communiqué urged Liberians to act for the collective good and their common patrimony or “we will continue to scramble for the gradual diminishing goodwill of other nations.”

It urged ECOWAS leaders and peace facilitators to be careful not to repeat the mistake of their last intervention in the Liberian crisis by seeking an expanded and quick-fix solution to the problem.

In a related development, a well respected Liberian international evangelist, Bishop Augustus Marwieh, has offered himself as a compromise interim leader of war-torn Liberia as ECOWAS and other world leaders attempt to stop the carnage in that country.

In a mission statement issued in Accra yesterday after his arrival to take part in the Accra Peace Talks on Liberia, Bishop Marwieh, who is the Head of the Agency for Holistic Evangelism and Development, said as Liberia continues to search for peace under the auspices of Ghana and the international community, “the time has come for Liberians to select the right person who will restore the dignity of Liberians among the community of nations.”

The statement, signed by Rev Hananiah Zoe, Spokesman for Bishop Marwieh, noted that in a land where people have used ethnic and political factors to divide themselves over the years, Bishop Marwieh is the most neutral and deserving head of the interim government.
“Liberia, at the moment, needs the people together to bring healing to those wounded by the war”, it said.

It said as a consensus builder, Bishop Marwieh will motivate all the factions such as the LURD, MODEL and GOL, to unite and rebuild Liberia which has been destroyed by almost 14 years of civil war.

The statement said in his determination to ensure that peace is achieved in Liberia, the Bishop has planned a special grand family re-union and national reconciliation conference at which he hopes to convince the victims to forgive and embrace their compatriots.

Long Live MAMA LIBERIA

Dozens of people have been killed in a heavy bombardment of the Liberian capital, Monrovia.
As fighting intensify in the Liberian capital Monrovia, many people have been kill by shells coming in from the front lines. Just three minutes ago I spoke to someone on a cell phone who also talk about shells landing in Saiytown, Sinkor killing about five person four women and a man (footballer).
Many of the dead have been piled in front of the US embassy as a protest against lack of action by the United States.
One mortar shell earlier hit a building of the embassy compound in Monrovia, shortly after the arrival by helicopter of about 40 US soldiers to reinforce security there.
The mortars are coming in rapid succession from the general direction of the port area where fighting is taking place.
The rebels, who are seeking to overthrow President Charles Taylor, have denied in a BBC interview that they were responsible for the.

I want to take this time call all pace loving groups to help, so many lives have been taking away by this war.

The Honorable Colin L. Powell
Secretary of State
United States Department of State
2201 C Street, NW
Washington, DC 20520

Dear Mr. Secretary:

I have recently received a report dated April 24, 2002 prepared by the International Crisis Group (ICG) dealing with the situation in Liberia. The distinguished members of the ICG include among others Stephen Solarz, Morton Abramowitz, Kenneth Adelman, Richard Allen, Jacques Delors, Fidel Ramos, and Gen. Wesley Clark.

This report contains an extraordinarily detailed account of the crisis in Liberia and verifies the shocking fact that the new Liberian rebel group "LURD" (Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy) is being openly and directly supported by the Government of Guinea.

The report continues that the United States and Britain "support their war-at least in principle" and that LURD has had contact with "mid-level US and British military officers in Freetown and Conkary and more senior US officials in the State Department and Pentagon who have sent encouraging signals."

The report also indicates that the United States "gives significant non-lethal military assistance" to Guinea and has scheduled a $3 million program to train and equip an 800-man rapid reaction force of the Guinean Army. This despite further word in the report that the leader of Guinea has a worse human rights record than Charles Taylor of Liberia, has "no democratic legitimacy…having rigged presidential elections in 1993 and 1998," whose "security forces have gunned down" gatherings by the opposition, and who has jailed its leaders, including his last electoral opponent. Guinea's "public institutions," police force, and judiciary are described by ICG as being riddled with corruption.

May I respectfully inquire as a taxpayer of the United States and one with significant financial investment in Liberia why the State Department of the United States of America is determined to bring down the President of Liberia who was elected in 1997 as president in elections which the ICG reports that the United Nations, President Jimmy Carter, and all other neutral observers determined were substantially free and fair?

I doubt seriously that the United States Congress has authorized either the State Department or the Department of Defense to fund a disorganized militia backed by a corrupt dictator in an attempt to overthrow the president of a former client state of the United States.

I know that your attention is occupied with the situation in the Middle East, India versus Pakistan, Iraq, and the larger war on terror; however, while these pressing issues are before us all, I do not wish to see the United States State Department cause the same chaos in Liberia that it caused indirectly several years ago in the nation of Zaire and surrounding Central African nations with the resulting loss of life of an estimated 2,500,000 people.

I thank you for your consideration of this letter, and with warm personal regards, I am…

Cordially yours,

Pat Robertson
Chairman of the Board and
Chief Executive Officer

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