Liberia: AFL Must Respect Human Dignity

12 February 2015
The NEWS (Monrovia)

Former Public Works Minister Samuel Kofi Woods has stated unequivocally that guns do not protect or promote democracy, but terrorize democracy. He said from the formation of the Liberia Frontier Force (LFF) to the configuration of the Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) up to the 1980 coup that resulted into military dictatorship, subsequently followed by a rebellious war launched in December 1989, the military has found itself as a liability rather than an asset to the development process of Liberia.

Like The AFL during the military junta in which Liberians were abused and their rights violated, Woods disclosed that there is extensive documentation of widespread abuse by the LFF and untold injustices to rural Liberians for many decades. Woods, as a young student in the 1980s, narrated that the military junta polarized the nation, abused the people and ignited a feud that culminated into what later became a civil war in which the AFL was a faction.

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