The Trial of Charles Taylor

Interesting!!!!! I strongly believe he knew some of those testimonies were LIES since he once worked for the Court……Hope next time he’ll be TRUTHFUL to myself also.

Question to Ms Stevenson : Was Prince Taylor personally hired by President Charles Taylor or by the special court? Please clarify. Cheers.

Good God!!

I thought this “Fallah Menjor guy” had passed, long gone and been forgotten about….

Swizz, if u were a girl I would not have responded you to maybe at all. I had the feelings u weren’t, based on some of your posts. Anyways, keep going sista! You and fallah are doing really well in a way.

One love and respect,

Tomas

Check this out, everyone!
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“Corruption Under Ellen Is A Divine Curse”
The former Defense Spokesman of the defunct rebel National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL) of Charles Taylor has once again opened up, rapping on critical national issues and unleashing yet another barrage of scathing verbal attacks on President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, his longtime political pal. After a long telephone conversation with this paper, Jucontee Thomas Woewiyu, spoke from the United States recently in an exclusive interview with Public Agenda. What does he think about the Sirleaf Administration and the future of Liberia? Editor-In-Chief, J. Lyndon Ponnie captured the exiled politician and militarist’s views.
Public Agenda: Welcome to this interview, Mr. Thomas Woewiyu.
Woewiyu: Thank you Mr. Editor
Public Agenda: We have learnt that you have been invited by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) to testify before it to say what you know about the Liberian crisis. Is this information correct?
Woewiyu: That is correct.
So, when will you return home to tell the TRC about what you know about the crisis in Liberia?
I received the TRC’s invitation sometime late last year. At the time, I could not travel due to some personal health reasons. Sometime early 2009, I informed the Commission through its Executive Director, Honorable Nathaniel Kwabo that I could make it to Liberia sometime in February. In my last communication to the Commission, I stated that I could be in Liberia on the weekend of February 12 to present my testimony on or about February 15 if all arrangements were consummated by the TRC. I have not heard from them since then. Let it be known that my testimony is completed. With or without the TRC it will be published in due course.
Recently the President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf appeared at the TRC and testified. During her testimony, she denied ever being a part of the NPFL, contradicting your open letter written in 2005. What is you comment?
As I stated in my 2005 open letter to Madam Sirleaf, she played a very important role in the first version of the NPFL led by the late General Thomas Quiwonkpa during his failed coupe in 1985. I said, she asked me to see Quiwonkpa in order to give him my blessing for the mission which he was about to embark upon. I told her that I did not want to have anything to do with Quiwonkpa and such a mission. She sent him anyway. Read the open letter again. I also said in the open letter that she also played the leading and sponsoring role in the organization and launching of the second NPFL adventure led by Charles Taylor. Without her support and approval, that whole adventure would never have gotten off the ground. I cited a 1987 conversation between Madam Sirleaf, Dr. Baron Tarr and me at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Estrada Bernard. The conversation had to do with her accepting responsibility for the political phase and Charles Taylor being responsible for the military phase of what eventually became the 1989 uprising against the Samuel Doe Regime. The disagreement between her and Dr. Tarr during that discussion was mentioned in the open letter. Dr. Tarr is an honorable man and should be in the position to recall the discussion.
If she had been part of the inner circle of the former rebel group as your open letter states, to what extend was she involved?
Tom Woewiyu

I stated that her effort in raising funds for the NPFL amounted to about half of million dollars. She has admitted giving US$10,000.00 to start the war. She has admitted to flying from the United States to meet with Charles Taylor in Paris to plan the war. She has admitted and apologized for issuing the NPFL her genocidal order to level Monrovia and she would rebuild it. What she has not done is, apologize for the death and destruction caused by such a reckless order. As I said in my open letter, Madam Sirleaf spoke at the time as the Commander-in-Chief of the NPFL. She wanted the public to know that she was involved at the top level of the uprising. Read the open Letter again.
Throughout the President’s testimony at the TRC, she made reference to you regarding all information she received from the NPFL at the time. What has been the relationship between you and Madam Sirleaf?
Thank God. Madam Sirleaf has vindicated me by confirming in her testimony that I was reporting to her. If she was not part of the NPFL, what was I doing reporting to her? Why did I not report to Dr. Amos Sawyer or Dr. Baron Tarr?
In 2005, you warned of electing Madam Sirleaf as President, now that she has been elected, how do you see Liberia today and what do you think it will be in the next years?
When I met with Madam Sirleaf in the Mansion regarding her five million dollar lawsuit against me for defamation of character, I asked her as to who she trying to impress with her suit? I told her Liberians have never listened about the characters of those they put in power. I said to her, Ellen, if my intention was to stop you from being elected, which it was, it did not work. You were elected anyway. So, what did you lose? I asked. I reminded Madam Sirleaf in that conversation that it was my open letter to Samuel Doe back in 1984 telling him to stay out of the 1985 election that she and the late Jackson Doe used as their campaign document. I also reminded her that it was my written position and public pronouncements against our mutual friend, Charles Taylor that she used in the 1997 election as issues while Taylor should not become President. I also asked Madam Sirleaf in the Mansion as to what she did not understand about me after all these years of political affiliation. I told Madam Sirleaf that in the same manner that I tried to warn the Liberian people that Doe and Taylor were not the right people to lead Liberia, in my open letter to her I warned the Liberian People that she, Madam Sirleaf did not possess the qualities to be President of Liberia. Her Administration of the nation with corruption being three times higher than the three previous regimes combined, has indeed confirmed my warning.
Mr. Taylor was arrested as a result of Madam Sirleaf’s request to Nigeria to have him turned over to the Special Court to answer to allegations of his involvement in Sierra Leone. Do you think that was in the right direction?
As I said in my open letter, Charles Taylor was a foot soldier for Madam Sirleaf and our exiled leaders. He was sent on a mission which was accomplished. Clearly, the ills of the mission caused a devastation of the total infrastructure of the nation and snuffed the lives out of 300,000 Liberians. By Madam Sirleaf sending Mr. Taylor to the Sierra Leonean Court, is she implying that the lives lost in that country are worth more than the ones lost in Liberia where Taylor was directly responsible first as a rebel leader and second as President of the Nation? I think Madam Sirleaf naively believes that her part in our national tragedy will remain hidden by focusing the spot light on Taylor in that international conspiracy. The saying goes in Liberia that “the same rope that hang monkey could hang baboon”.
It is being rumored in Liberia that you are one of the witnesses for Mr. Taylor in The Hague, how true is this information?
No one has asked me to do so.
There is so much news of corruption in Liberia under the leadership of President Sirleaf; do you think Madam Sirleaf is the right person to fight this virus?
Corruption under Madam Sirleaf is not a virus. Virus can be cured by the proper medical remedy. Corruption in the Republic of Liberia under Madam Sirleaf is part of a “divine curse”, it has no cure. I am saying this to my fellow Liberians; let us pray with all of our hearts and ask God to forgive us for not understanding his will and acting accordingly. 2 Chronicles 7:14: “if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and will heal their land”. It was the realization of the power of this verse of the Holy Bible the people of God in Liberia held the three day prayer vigil entitled, “Liberia for Jesus”. President Taylor dressed in white swear-in suit prostrated on the platform and said “Lord I am not the President of your People, You are, may your will be done”. Did the Lord’s will get done? Yes. He abdicated the seat of the Presidency and went into exile. Here is another verse of the Bible that Liberians must think of as we pick our leaders: Proverbs 28:12.When the righteous triumph, there is great elation; but when the wicked rise to power, men go into hiding.
I said corruption under Madam Sirleaf’s Administration is part of a divine curse because I see how God is showing Madam Sirleaf that no sin and absolutely no sin go on punished. Just as it was with Pharaoh in Egypt thousands of years ago, when God told him “let my People go”, God is telling Madam Sirleaf to either do the right thing or quit the leadership of Liberia while she can. God has shown her signs that he is not happy with her. He has allowed the devil to drop a few plagues on Liberia as a way of making his point. For instance:
Tom Jucontee Woewiyu recounted four plagues that be said have befallen the Sirleaf administration. Read our Part 2 of the series for more on the plagues and other critical national issues expounded on by the interviewee in our next edition.”
http://www.publicagendanews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=750:tom-oewiyu..

“Mr. Taylor was arrested as a result of Madam Sirleaf’s request to Nigeria to have him turned over to the Special Court to answer to allegations of his involvement in Sierra Leone. Do you think that was in the right direction?” Thomas Woewiyu

Stop talking about corruption and what you know about this Thomas Woewiyu guy, Fallah.
Your undying distractions will not earn you that cyber pay check you’re working overnight for.
We want justice for Liberians and Sierra Leoneans. Not colonial injustice as usual.
Keeping taylor here is in the interest of Ellen and her colonial masters to whom she has sold Liberians after stealing the nation’s wealth. We want her brought to justice and everyone who gave her a dollar to kill our people for wealth brought to book as well!

Keeping Taylor here, and prolonging a simple trial will not get us justice where it is needed most. So quit this nonsense and let Taylor go. It’s an insult to the nation of sierra leone to sit here and pretend this is about the lost of lives the same people sponsored as usual, for economy interests.

Reporting from Allafrica.com:
http://allafrica.com/stories/201304030772.html

WHAT PRES. TAYLOR HAD TO SAY…Read!

Former President Charles Taylor has been commenting on the death of Moses Blah, the man who succeeded him after he stepped down and sought refuge in Nigeria, but later testified against him at The Hague saying, he had long forgiven Blah.

“Blah was a victim of international conspiracy,” Mr. Taylor told the New Dawn through his aide on Tuesday.

“He (Taylor) says I should tell you that he told Blah family that he has long forgiven him.” The aide said after several attempts to quiz Taylor on Blah’s death. “He said Blah was a victim of international conspiracy.” Taylor’s aide added on Tuesday.

Blah, 65, served in various capacities under Taylor before becoming his vice president. He died in Monrovia at the John F. Kennedy Memorial Hospital on Monday (April 1, 2013) following a protracted illness.

As a key witness in the war crime trial of Taylor, a move many Taylor loyalists saw as a betrayal, Blah testified on May 14, 2008, after he announced on April 7, the same year that he had been subpoenaed to testify, describing child soldiers and the relationship between Taylor and Foday Sankoh.

“To a great extent, Moses [Blah] told the court the truth,” Mr. Taylor said months later on November 3, 2009, when asked by his defense counsel to give his view on his former vice president’s testimony. “There were three areas where unfortunately, he was wrong but 90-95 percent of what he said is true.”

Mr. Taylor’s analysis of Mr. Blah’s testimony came as part of his effort at the time to respond to evidence provided by several prosecution witnesses, disputing their claims that he provided support for the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebels in Sierra Leone after November 1996.

In his May 2008, testimony, Blah, who testified for the prosecution against Taylor, began his testimony with his relationship with Mr. Taylor. His testimony covered Taylor’s activities from the late 1980s when the two were together in Libya and planning to invade Liberia, up to 2003 when Mr. Taylor handed the presidency of Liberia to him (Blah) and sought asylum in Nigeria.

Mr. Taylor going through some aspects of Mr. Blah’s testimony at the time agreed with him that as vice president, he had no knowledge that arms and ammunition were transported from Liberia to Sierra Leone for use by RUF rebels.

Speaking to the New Dawn through his closed aide, Mr. Taylor indicated that he had still maintain contact with the late Blah since his testimony in The Hague.

“When he (Blah) was sick, he used to send messages to him through others. Blah is his in-law,” the aide added, saying Taylor’s extreme wife Tupee Taylor is from Toweh’s Town, the home town of Blah.

Speaking further Taylor blamed the government, saying it failed to give Blah his deserving honor as a former president leaving him to live like a pauper.

He said the situation of the late Blah is a clear demonstration of the Sirleaf’s regime failure to treat past officials with honor. Taylor is also seeking benefits from the government.

Taylor said the government failed to help Blah at the time he needed its help the most amidst speculation that the former president (Blah) could not even afford money for his last series of injections.

Taylor recounted how he once helped ex-government officials to seek medical attention abroad during his administration. He named the late Roosevelt Johnson and Oscar Quioh as those he helped during his administration and wonder why the Sirleaf government was not doing same for past officials.

Taylor also took the time to appeal to the citizens of Nimba, Blah’s native compatriots, to put their differences aside and come together. Blah is the first citizen of Nimba to become vice President and later President for two months.

Born 18 April, 1947 in Toweh Town, Nimba County, close to the border with the Ivory Coast, Blah joined Charles Taylor to launch his rebel invasion here in 1989 because of a shared hatred of the late President Samuel Kanyon Doe, who had killed Blah’s wife along with hundreds of others in an ethnic-related massacre.

He was one of Taylor’s 150 Special Forces Commandos, trained in a Libyan guerrilla camp to depose the Doe regime.

The late President Blah also served Ambassador to Libya and Tunisia during the Taylor regime and subsequently became Vice President in July 2000 after the death of Rev. Enoch Dogolea, another Special Forces Commando of Taylor’s National Patriotic Front of Liberia rebels, who was rumored to have been poisoned.

Swizz,
Lack of class is not lack of self- respect, you know?

Posting here is a matter of opinion, no matter how stupid one sounds.

Life is balanced with informed and uninformed exchanges.

And although I (honestly) don’t think you and Fallah’s position are uninformed, rather, it is of hateful and intentionally nature in an effort to corrupt real conversation and discourse of the matter at hand; I don’t see those who have disagreed with you two, calling names and insulting you for your natural opposition to real justice.

All the nasty names and insult you post should not be posted in the first place. Either you stop, or any post will eventually removed into the trash.

Respecting others, is respecting oneself.

Grow up, or grow out with your “all ignorant” frustration!!

Peace