The Liberian Government has instituted "stringent security measures" to prevent spillover of the bloody unrest in neighboring Guinea, the Commissioner of the Bureau of Immigration and naturalization (BIN) Col. Chris Massaquoi has disclosed.

He said the government in collaboration with the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) took the latest decision to institute an inflexible security network as a way of protecting the Liberian people. He did not explain the policy for security reasons.

The Mano River Union (MRU) Country last week erupted into violence with at least 150 people dying He said the situation in Guinea has the propensity to pose danger to the Nation's security.

Col. Massaquoi stated that prior to the crisis in Guinea; the Liberian Government had put into place a joint security network to immediately respond to any spillover from Guinea.

Addressing reporters over the weekend, Col. Massaquoi expressed concern over the crisis in the neighboring country and called on the authorities of sub-regional organizations, including the Economic Communities of West African States(ECOWAS) and the MRU-headed by Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf-to find a lasting solution to the Guinean crisis.

Col. Massaquoi noted that government is doing everything possible, with the help of other sub-regional leaders, to restore calm once again to Guinea.

He called on MRU and ECOWAS to prevail on the Guinean Authorities to see reason, and listen to the demands of the citizens, who are calling for political reform leading to the conduct of presidential and general elections next January.

Meanwhile, the Liberian chapter of the MRU Youth Parliament says its attention has been drawn to the recent "unfortunate wave of cacophony that has swept heartbrokenly through the capitol city of our sister Republic of Guinea," leaving at least 157 persons dead.

In a strong worded statement issued October 1, 2009 in Monrovia, the Parliament said "several of our sisters in that part of the Mano River Basin have been raped, our countless brothers and fathers manhandled, and over 1,000 Guinean citizens reportedly injured..." the statement read.

"We feel this ugly situation must be halted. Our people in Guinean deserve nothing less than peace, stability, security and economic improvement," the statement signed by Teeko T. Yorlay, First Deputy Speaker of the Liberian Chapter of the MRU youth Parliament, said.

The MRU basin-including Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Cote d'Ivoire-has faced serious civil unrests for the last two decades.

The youth said it is historically evident in the basin that major civil disorder has started with demonstration like the Rice Riot of 1979 in Liberia that preceded the 1980 military coup d'etat that again laid the basis for a brutal and senseless civil war that lasted for nearly a decade and a half.

"When it started in Liberia," the youth group noted, "it was seen merely as a Liberian problem that needed a Liberian solution without any international intervention. Other nations, especially very powerful ones like the United States of America, France and Great Britain amongst others, sadly dragged their feet until the situation reached an uncontrollable state before attempts were made to stop what became a human catastrophe that has left the scar on the consciences of these powerful nations."

The s aid at the end of the day, what appeared to be a Liberian problem soon graduated into the Sierra Leonean problem too. The war that started here spilled over and destroyed several valuable lives and properties and transformed the Basin into a hub of nothing positive but heartless brutality, wanton destruction and untold suffering.

"The Sierra Leonean's and Liberian's problems again soon transformed itself into the Ivorian problem as the Ivorians tasted the bitterness of war. By this time it clearly became a dangerously contagious Basin virus that was uncontrollably infesting almost every country in the Basin," the statement continued.

"Today, the once peaceful civilians of Guinean are now in the streets demonstrating and some sadly dying. This must not only claim the attention of the other countries of the Basin, but it must also claim the immediate attention of the Economic Community of African States, the African Union, the United Nations and all well-meaning international and intergovernmental organizations to immediately and unconditionally intervene now and not later before we experience another "holocaust" in our religion."

The called on President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia as Chairperson of the MRU to spearhead an urgent mediation process that must culminate happily into a peaceful and stable Guinea, not only for Guineans, but for all residents of the MRU basin.