New Democrat (Monrovia)
3 November 2009
Although a UN group, headed by former Kenyan Attorney General Amos Wako, concluded that infamous Cater Camp Massacre in Fireston was the work of soldiers of the Armed Forced of Liberia, the TRC has disputed the findings, saying rebels to Mr. Charles Taylor executed the masscre.
The TRC conclusions come after several witnesses during the public hearing testified that National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL) carried out the executions. The report:
"June 6, 1993: Massacre of 600 displaced persons at a Harbel Camp within Firestone Plantation. The UN Wacco Commission placed responsibility at the door steps of the AFL; observers and TRC findings hold the NPFL responsible for the massacre in which the victims were burned on the outskirts of the camp."
The report lso added, amongst others, that:
1991: The NPFL was responsible for the killings of hundreds of members of the Krahn ethnic group and members of the Mandingo community in Grand Gedeh County, who were targeted for formerly supporting the Doe government. NPFL continued to detain, torture, and kill civilians in other areas under their control.
1991: The INPFL or NPFL killed Angeline Watta Allison. It was also reported that her husband, a former defense minister, Major-General Gray Dioh Allison, was captured and executed by the NPFL.
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Yannaboy, you really proved that you deserve the the name. Are you insane to imply that the Interim Government will massacre is citizens to remain in power? Like your boss Taylor, your name is a liar and the father of it. Your boss is now crumbling in the Haque. He has no other alternative but to speak the truth that everyone knew all along. The blood of the innocent people will hunt your for the rest of your remaining life. You guys are a bunch of murderers.
Judgement09, Don't you find it strange that when the International Community blames Mr. Taylor for all the atrocities in the Region that " The Powers that Be" agree with them. When the same International Community exonerates Mr. Taylor for crimes such as the Carter Camp Massacre. The same " Powers that Be" say that the International Community is wrong. Maybe it is people like you Judgement09 who are truly insane.
The New Democrat leaflet was formed by Sawyer's stooge, Tom Kamara as a anti-Taylor/NPFL propaganda tool and has live up to that since. Nothing can change the Waco report placing the blame of the Carter Camp Massacre on the AFL. The Carter Camp Massacre was ochestrated by the Interim Government of Amos Sawyer, a government that Tom Kamara was part of (infact he used government funds to start the New Democrat leaflet). The scheme was designed to make the NPFL uand Taylor look ugly and perpetuate their stay in power.