Liberia: Gangsters' Proxy War Emerging, Reverberating Woes of Conflict

20 February 2013

Despite the fact Liberians, for decades or perhaps centuries, carried some amount of hate and bitterness for one another, and that the political system was not as responsive as everyone had wanted, citizens were virtually peaceful with one another; mass murders, mass destruction and collective guilty and hatred against each other were not the people's conscious and immediate contemplation or handiwork until politicians dug up and exploited distant and faint conflict situations. That was when Liberians, like Adam and Eve, began to behold the environment around them, the differences in tribes and political cleavages and went out to attack and decimate one another on those differences. The engineers of the new order of things, at the end of the day, became the fat beneficiaries, surviving on the precious lives, blood and tears of the "masses of the people" who were instruments of the struggles. Nearly ten years later, there seems to be simmering signs—politicians are again marshalling their unsuspecting proxies to prosecute selfish agendas in ways nearly akin to civil conflict days. The Analyst reports.

Emerging Woes

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