Tom Woewiyu's "Just War"

You know, when the civil war in Liberia first started in December of 1989, Tom Woewiyu, a guy who seems to love writing presidents, should have remained in Philadelphia or Buchanan and prepared himself to write Taylor or the many who became presidents of Liberia in a short span of12 years. He did not do that. Instead, he joined the band wagon of killers for the gravy he saw profusely leaking from it. He recruited young people and made them killing machines. These young human-killing machines did well for Mr Woewiyu and his "just war" agents. When the smoke finally cleared after 14 years, Liberia was a ghost town and 200,000 or more of our people were dead.

I feel terribly eerie living every day with a man like this. Imagine Hitler and the surviving Jews living side by side and competing for space on the same World Wide Web. I think it is time for some people to jump off bridges or fall on swords or voluntarily walk into the office of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and spill their guts.

I am signing off on this eerie and nightmarish dialogue, because every time I imagine the atrocities committed against our people, I get sick in the stomach. But before I do, I want to make one observation: apparently, the threat to demolish the Mansion in Monrovia, to many, sounds more scarier that the threat to bomb and eliminate an entire county and people. The latter scenario, to me, sounded then like genocide in the making.

It's time for war lords of all persuasions to stop the logical and civilized suggestions and start talking to the Liberia people about the crimes committed against them and the country... for 14 long years.

Cooper Kweme