Liberia's Minister for Foreign Affairs Charles Cecil Dennis Jr is prepared for execution alongside other cabinet ministers after Samuel Doe overthrew the government.
On April 12, 1980, Samuel Doe led a military coup, killing President William R. Tolbert, Jr., in the Executive Mansion. Twenty-six of Tolbert’s supporters were also killed in the fighting. Shortly after the coup, government ministers were walked publicly around Monrovia in the nude and then summarily executed by a firing squad on the beach.
Samuel Doe was a master sergeant in the Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) when he staged the violent 1980 coup d'état that overthrew President William Tolbert and the True Whig Party, becoming the first non-Americo-Liberian leader of Liberia.
Politics in the 80s and 90s was utterly chaotic. A whole president, Samuel Doe, was brutally tortured and executed on live television by a rebel group.
If you have ever watched samuel doe’s 1989 public brutalization before he was further killed like a stray goat.
That saying “power is only transient” will ring in your ear.
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