FORMER LIBERIAN WARLORD, PRINCE JOHNSON DIES AT 72
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Prince Johnson, a former Liberian warlord who played a significant role in the back-to-back civil wars from 1989 to 2003, passed away on Thursday at the age of 72, according to Senate and party officials who spoke to AFP.
Johnson was a powerful senator who was captured on camera drinking beer while fighters loyal to him tortured and killed then-President Samuel Doe in 1990.
“Senator Johnson was the longest-serving senator,” said Siaffa Jallah, deputy director of press at the Senate.
“Yes, we lost him this morning. He passed away at Hope for Women (health centre)”, Wilfred Bangura, a senior official in Prince Johnson’s Movement for Democracy and Reconstruction party, told AFP.
The death of Doe was an early bloody episode that would plunge Liberia into two civil wars which killed some 250,000 people and ravaged the economy.
Prince Johnson, who hailed from the northern region of Nimba, later became a preacher in an evangelical church where he enjoyed wide popularity.
He was also a leading opponent of the creation of a tribunal that would try civil war-related crimes.
AFP
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