Thirty-nine years after the 1980 bloody coup that toppled Liberia's 19th President William R. Tolbert, Jr. and his one-party rule, the grand old True Whig Party or TWP discloses plan to engage the Government of Liberia and international partners to exhume the remains of its slain standard bearer and others who were buried in a mass grave hours after the military coup that changed the course of Liberian politics.
The coup was staged on April 12, 1980 by 17 enlisted soldiers of the Armed Forces of Liberia led by Master Sergeant Samuel Kanyon Doe, rocking peace of Africa's first independent Republic.
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