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Taylor ordered me to execute people, former commander tells TRC |
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Written by Wellington Geevon Smith
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Wednesday, 01 October 2008 |
A top commander of the defunct National Patriotic Front of Liberia has admitted that on two occasions Charles Taylor personally ordered him to execute people.
John P. Namayan served as Special Bodyguard to Mr. Taylor who was leader of the now NPFL, that started Liberia’s 14-year old bloody civil war.
Namayan recalled Mr. Taylor ordered him to first execute a man accused of killing his wife and then another NPFL commander in Ganta, Nimba County.
He said the commander allegedly violated Mr. Taylor’s orders to close Liberia’s frontier with Guinea during the heydays of the civil conflict.
Namayan conceded that NPFL forces did not treat civilians with dignity, saying that they committed wide spread human rights violations including rapes and forced labor.
The former rebel expressed regrets for atrocities committed during the war and apologized to the people of Liberia.
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