2024-11-28 12:54:00
PRince Johnson, who a video showed drinking a beer as his men tortured President Samuel Doe to death in 1990, was still an influential senator in his country.
“Yes, we lost him this morning. He’s dead [no hospital] on the outskirts of Monrovia,” Wilfried Bangura, one of his party’s leaders, told the France-Presse news agency (AFP).
“Senator Johnson’s death is very regrettable and unexpected. This morning, the Vice President went to Hope for Women Hospital and he and other Senators are expected to go to the Senator’s home to meet the family,” confirmed Siaffa Jallah, head of Senate press room.
Doe’s death was one of the first bloody episodes that plunged Liberia into a civil war that, by 2003, had caused an estimated 250,000 deaths and devastated its economy.
Prince Johnson, a senator from his home region of Nimba (North), preached in an evangelical church and had many followers, maintaining a high level of popularity.
He was also a leading opponent of the creation of a tribunal to try Civil War crimes.
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