Dealing with the Chaos in Liberia

The economy of Liberia is completely destroyed and people don't have access to the electricity grid, postal service or water. The UN corps are sent to demobilize over 45,000 combatants and have them hand in their weapons.

Dealing with the Chaos in Liberia Female 1: Liberia has endured years of destruction characterized by marauding gangs of youths, mercenaries and chaos. Violence roke Africa’s oldest republic in the late 1980s when economic collapse ended in civil war. Dissidence were Charles Taylor’s national patriotic front over around the country and executive descend President Samuel Doe. Charles Taylor himself is elective President in 1997 but the violence continued. The crisis came to ahead in July 2003. Thousands fled to the capitol of Monrovia to escape gangs in the countryside but even the city wasn’t safe. Hundreds of massive people in the streets caught in the crossfire between rebel forces and government troops. Ordinary Liberians beg the International Community to help in the causes of war over one in a half million Liberians were forced from their homes operated in this place. Some fled abort, others caught between the warning factions, lost their property, their homes, their families, and even their lives. Female 2: We became afraid, so when we heard the gun sounds, we thought people were coming. So we took or luggage and begin to run. And running sometime, a stray bullet would hit someone and because of the gunshot the person may die. You didn’t get the chance to even look around for your daughter or son. You just have to continue moving just for you to hope for your survival. Female 1: So please of ordinary Liberians were finally on save in August 2003. When troops from the International Community arrived to outs Charles Taylor. In October, a massive UN Peace Keeping Mission was in place and a peace accord signed establishing a transitional government to drawn from the warning factions. Many had never held office before. Wesley Johnson: We have a difficult govern to run, it govern of an inclusion provided a well of government we are trying to do our best. And one of gotten our risk is this has happened to be that all Liberians afraid of the war and so we have to put our heart to this nonsense. Jacques Klein: The International Community should be ashamed of their thought that for 24 years, they stood why rather there is a murder. May- Ann raped and kills her and they did nothing. It was only once the whole of the West Catholic and regions here may only give me a pretty war it began to fall apart. That someone funny said look Liberia is the problem, Charles Taylor is the problem in Liberia. We need to do something and we need to do something now. We have a country here about 3.3 million people. We come into this to be destroyed but that there is no electric concrete, telephone systems, street and residence postal service and Monrovia still a city of Monrovian people about water or electricity. Female 1: Today Liberia is a country holding its breath. In December 2003, the first attempt to disarmed and demobilize, warning factions was overwhelmed by the huge numbers combatants one thing to hand in no weapons. A second attempt is now well under way. Over 14,000 UN troops from 49 countries have been deployed to demobilize up to 45,000 combatants. It's a concerted effort to encourage all the pieces to finally hand in no weapons. Female 3: Disarm to this we all knew and live of better life Male 1: This message is brought to you by the Republic Information of Section of the United Nations Mission in Liberia. Female 1: Today on mill the United Nations Peace Keeping Mission in Liberia is the largest peace keeping mission in the world. Jacques Klein: Without the elongations and no authorization there is no stability, there is no safety and security inwirement. There is no record could you return, there is no displace person returned and all through new process come to a stall. Female 1: Disarmament is taking place in the countryside where most of the former combatants still live. Large group rowing the country roads, walking for hours to hand in no weapons and goes through the process of demobilization. These men have been fighting in the bush for years. Tension remains high. Every morning the military pick up points of crowded with men and women waiting to be taken through the process of demilitarization with so many people corps up in the fighting. It's hard to know just how many combatants they really were and how many need to be disarmed. Rebel leaders are cooperating with the UN forces to verify their fighters. Baby Face is a former rebel command. The United Nations Forces face a tough challenge gotten through the power military commands structures in maintaining calm. Once they handed in their weapons, they need to find new way to occupy themselves in animal living. A fact that magnet another rebel understands only too well. Baby Face: We need to talk about the next plan after handing in our arms. It's a meeting to help everyone. Fighting men, there are so many of us. We need education, trade, and dental, medical, whatever.