An Indian Express Investigation in collaboration with Le Monde and International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
By: Will Fitzgibbon & Martha M Hamilton
It was a scene of incredible carnage. In July 2003, a recently re-armed rebel group, Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy, resumed its two-month siege of the capital, Monrovia, fighting to wrest control of the country from President Charles Taylor.
Child soldiers were fighting on both sides, in an area filled with civilians.
In the battle known locally as “World War III,” the young soldiers fighting for the rebels were armed with what The Economist called “shiny new toys,” with which they …read more
Source: The Indian Express
