Make up your mind, one minute you want culture rituals to continue in Liberia the next minutes you want culture rituals (killings) to stop. Isn’t this the culture rituals that you, Nat G. and others want to continue in Liberia? Live with it!!!!
You can’t have both my friend!
Thank you,
Roberta Williams
"What other people think of you is none of your business."
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Subject: [ULIBSAAforum] Fw: LIB govt. ignores ritual killings
--- On Wed, 3/10/10, Joe Morris
From: Joe Morris
Subject: LIB govt. ignores ritual killings
To: EveryLiberian@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, March 10, 2010, 12:54 PM
Fellow Liberians,
Please do not be surprise if the government of Liberia decides to investigate the recent conflict in Lofa without pursuing the perpetrators of the ritualistic killing of the young girl that ignited the violence.
When did it become legal in Liberia to kill people especially those belonging to low economic class?
There have been series of death reported around the country with ritual intend and the very good government has never been moved or the nation stopped to pursue the perpetrators and bring justice to one more forgotten soul that leaves the living few.
For the sake of common sense, you will think that after losing 250,000 of your citizens, you will be distraught when one more of the living is gone.
Most frustrating of all; The family of the slain young girl will now be heard only because it sparked tribal and religious conflict.
What a sad nation!
God bless our nation.
Joseph Kalapele Morris
Connecticut - The Constitution State
--- On Sun, 2/28/10, George Kpator
From: George Kpator
Subject: [EveryLiberian] FrontPageAfrica's ACCOUNTS OF WHAT HAPPENED IN LOFA COUNTY
To: "Every Liberian"
Date: Sunday, February 28, 2010, 1:30 AM
L
iberia’s northernmost county of Lofa is unarguably one of Liberia’s counties that continues to heed to the effects of the evils of a post-conflict environment which continues to see the residents of the county challenged with the task of co-existence and religious tolerance in the midst of all its Christian-Muslim domination in addition to its many tribal arrangements, begetting a recent violence in two of its major towns that have led to deaths and destruction of properties that occurred in less than 24 hours.
What began as a student protest against the death of one of their colleagues named Korpu Kamara later turned into a somewhat religious violence that reportedly left four persons dead and over 50 injured that left some churches and schools burnt down.
The violence coincided as the Liberian National Bar Association was holding its first quarterly-session of 2010 in Voinjama which left one of its councilors’ vehicle burnt down in the aftermath of the violence after an entrapped Vice President Joseph Boakai had to be airlifted to Monrovia following hours of his convoy being held hostage by the angry protesters.
Sen. Kupee & other Lofa lawmakers a town hall meeting Saturday to discuss the religious tension in Northern Liberia.
Reports emanating from the county said the students’ protest was sparked by the discovery of student Korpu’s corpse, an eleventh grade student, who had gone missing for days but was found dead later reportedly lying next to a mosque in Zorzor, thereby leading to some of the students suspecting that their colleague’s death was tied to the Muslims of the mosque.
Lofa County Superintendent, Galakpai Kortimai, told a local radio station Friday night that misinformation from Zorzor of a mosque being burnt down rapidly spread to Voinjama which led angry Muslims to go on the rampage, reportedly burning down churches and Christian-run schools with the Catholic and Lutheran schools in the provincial capital being reportedly burnt down.
Further reports speak of shootings from single barrel guns in the provincial capital leading to the deaths of four men as confirmed by Representative Moses Kollie who told FrontPageAfrica that the bodies of the four killed so far were all men and were found with bullet wounds, a situation that has caused more attention to be drawn to the fragility of not just the county but Liberia in its entirety.
Representative Kollie said the bodies are deposited at a local hospital in Voinjama.
The late Korpu was also reported to have been found dead with bullet wound, though yet to be fully established.
Late Friday evening, troops from the Emergency Response Unit (ERU) of the Liberian National Police (LNP) were seen being airlifted from the Springfield Airport in Sinkor, Monrovia, to the troubled zone to help calm the situation along with stationed troops of the United Nations Mission In Liberia (UNMIL) who have come under strong criticism of biasingly protecting only mosques and ignoring the protection of churches, something that again surfaced during Saturday’s mass meeting.UNMIL, in a press release issued late Friday afternoon stated it was aware of the situation and that UNMIL Formed Police Unit and military components were sent on the ground in assistance to the LNP in Voinjama where the incident took place.
Saturday's meeting came a day after violence erupted in the county; beginning from a town named Konia and later spreading to other parts of the county including the provincial capital of Voinjama.
The UN Mission said that the troops will work in close coordination with the local county authorities and the security apparatus on the ground to keep the situation under control and UNMIL will contribute the necessary specialists to assist in the investigation of the incident.
In the midst of the recent violence in the county that has seen scores of damages taking place in Zorzor and Voinjama, a mass meeting of Lofa citizens residing in Monrovia and its environs was held Saturday at the Capitol Building upon the invitation of the Lofa County Legislative Caucus.
The meeting came a day after violence erupted in the county; beginning from a town named Konia and later spreading to other parts of the county including the provincial capital of Voinjama.
Saturday’s meeting that was organized by the county’s legislative caucus saw several views and suggestions made by citizens of the county which resulted into the formation of two committees with the responsibilities of investigating what really transpired and soliciting funds to aid with the repairs of the damages caused respectively.
The meeting was headed by the Caucus’ Chairman, the county’s Senior Senator Sumo Kupee (Coalition for the Transformation of Liberia-COTOL) while Senator Fomba Kanneh (All Liberian Coalition Party-ALCOP) , Representatives Moses Kollie (COTOL), Malliam Jallabah (ALCOP) and Varflay Kamara (ALCOP) were present as Representative Eugene Fallah Kparkar’s absence (Liberty Party) was noticeable.
Lofa citizens during the meeting who were drawn from all tribal and religious sectors of the county agreed on ensuring that the committees comprise of three representatives from each of the county’s seven administrative districts with one female and two males comprising of each set of the three representatives: namely, Foya , Kolahun
‘A Shame To All Lofaians’
“What is happening in Lofa County is a shame to us all”, noted one of the citizens before adding his recommendation during the meeting.
The county in recent time has been engulfed with several mysterious deaths, most of which are ritualistic and the students had thought that it was time for such to be halted with immediacy.
The death of little Vawuu Kesselley whose death has linked Senator Kupee and that of another police man have been reasons why the students thought to demand justice that unfortunately turned out to be violent than they had thought.
Representative Kollie told FrontPageAfrica after Saturday’s meeting that the citizens of the county need to go back on the drawing-board in identifying and acknowledging that there are still problems in the county.
“The death of this little girl tells us that there are still problems in our county”, Representative Kollie said.
I’m Bitter More Than You”: Deceased’s Uncle Laments
PAINFUL LOSS
Jefferson Nyandibo, an uncle of the late Korpu Kamara whose death sparked the violence, in an attempt to restore quietude to the meeting that was being disturbed by some of the citizens said he was bitter more than any of them in attendance and that there was need for any disturbance as they sought to find the solution to the problem of their troubled county.
Jefferson Nyandibo, an uncle of the late Korpu Kamara whose death sparked the violence, in an attempt to restore quietude to the meeting that was being disturbed by some of the citizens said, he was bitter more than any of them in attendance and that there was no need for any further disturbance as they sought to find the solution to the problem of their troubled county.
“No one, as I stand before you is so more grieved than me, but again, with your presence, my sorrow has gone away” Jefferson said.
Jefferson told the gathering that the deceased was actually the child of the late Paramount Chief, Joseph Nyandibo. Jefferson narrated that his elder brother married Korpu’s mother, Viamah Nyandibo Kamara, who has gone to Konia, Lofa County to bury their daughter.
“What we have come to say to all of us is this: there’ll be situation that will always create forum for another situation”, he said or otherwise he would have gone to the Capitol Building and stop Senator Kupee not to speak until they provide circumstances leading to the death of his niece who he referred to as daughter, Korpu.
Jefferson urged his fellow citizens to stop asking who is going to keep peace for them in their county.
“No one order than you can keep peace in Lofa”, he said as he made reference to a remark from one of the citizens who suggested that UNMIL be drawn into whatever investigation that would take place amid claims that the UN Mission was biased in protecting mosques and not churches.
“Dangerously, for all us of is to ever live with pretense. I was in Voinjama, when we did the traditional cleansing, funded by USAID. Elders that ever went to that traditional cleansing can attest”, he continued as he lamented the fact that there exists some differences among citizens of the county that need to be settled and instead of pretending that all is well.
He reflected that during the “traditional cleansing”, people from every segment of the area were present.
“We killed cows, we put libations, we went to the mountains, we did all. But this action, I’m convinced that was done was under pretense”, Jefferson further observed.
Lofa’s On Time Bomb
He told his fellow Lofa citizens that it was fortunate for them to realize that they are sitting on a time bomb in the county.
He further asserted it was unfortunate that his niece, Korpu died in the way and manner in which she died and left the podium weeping deeply. Jefferson frowned on his compatriots that they pretend so much, which will do them no good.
Friday, March 26, 2010
Rituals Killing in Liberia
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