They have always been that way. Only difference is 200 or 300 years ago they were living in huts and were using spears and white people would call them head hunters. They are exactly the same except now they have guns instead of spears. Its amazing anyone is left alive in that country.
I was in the Marines. We had to go there in 1996 to secure the US Embassy and to help evacute any US citizens. We were there strickly to protect the embassy and pretty much stayed out of any of the fighting that occured. As long as they didnt threaten the embassy we stayed out of it. Those Liberians would be fighting just a few meters away from our posts. They would run into the middle of the street and hold their AK over their head and point it at their enemy and would pull the trigger with their thumb. It was the stupidiest thing I ever saw. The rifle has sites on it for a reason. They had this lady called the witch. She would walk with her rifle pointing back over her shoulder and she would carry a mirror and try to shoot however was behind her. They were really scared of her because she was supposedly in like 50 fire fights and never got hit. I don't know if she actually managed to shoot anybody using her method, but she never got hit either. They believe in juju, and thought she had juju so they were scared.
Thank you for sharing. You know I think there was a movie made a few years ago about Marines rescuing those in the US Embassy in some African country. I wonder if it was a take off of the real action or just coincidence.
I don't know what the inspiration of the movie was but it was quite similiar to my experience in Liberia. The movie you are talking about is Rules of Engagement and in my opinion it was absolute rubbish. Completely unrealistic and unbelievable.
Part III Some messed up shit, Prostitutes working for 50 cents in a brothel etc.. and garbage city. In the Past Liberia was a regular civilized country. Until that civil war hit. This shit could happen here in the US if our government falls and this country ends up a free for all. <script src="http://www.vbs.tv/vbs_player.js?width=480&height=270&ec=V1dG81MTpmKpBGiQHnlLs9BOIeS_cuBQ&st=The%20Vice%20Guide%20to%20Travel&pl=http://www.vbs.tv/watch/the-vice-guide-to-travel/the-vice-guide-to-liberia-3-of-8" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>
People getting burned alive while crowds watch and flame the fires. Uganda has its issues <object width="450" height="370"><param name="movie" value="http://www.liveleak.com/e/dae_1236854361"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.liveleak.com/e/dae_1236854361" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="450" height="370"></embed></object> General Butt Naked Blahyi has said he led his troops naked except for shoes and a gun. Apparently, he believed that his nakedness was a source of protection from bullets.[8][9] Blahyi now claims he would regularly sacrifice a victim before battle, saying, "Usually it was a small child, someone whose fresh blood would satisfy the devil."[1] He explained to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer: "Sometimes I would enter under the water where children were playing. I would dive under the water, grab one, carry him under and break his neck. Sometimes I'd cause accidents. Sometimes I'd just slaughter them."[10] "So, before leading my troops into battle, we would get drunk and drugged up, sacrifice a local teenager, drink their blood, then strip down to our shoes and go into battle wearing colourful wigs and carrying dainty purses we'd looted from civilians. We'd slaughter anyone we saw, chop their heads off and use them as soccer balls. We were nude, fearless, drunk and homicidal. We killed hundreds of people â so many I lost count."[11] Blahyi also purported that during that period he had "magical powers that made him invisible" and a "special power" to capture a town singlehandedly, then call in his troops afterwards to "clean up".[12] Some of Blahyi's soldiers â often teenage boys â would enter battle naked; others would wear women's clothes.[1] In June 2006 Blahyi published his autobiography including pictures of him fighting with a rifle, wearing nothing but sneakers.[13] In January 2008, Milton Blahyi confessed to taking part in human sacrifices which "included the killing of an innocent child and plucking out the heart, which was divided into pieces for us to eat." He fought against Charles Taylor's militia.[14] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Blahyi