The Peace Keeper's War

In Liberia, AFL government forces led by the now dead Samuel Doe, fought a vicious civil war against rebel forces led by Charles Taylor.
Other West African countries sent in a peace-keeping force, Ecomog, partly funded by the US. However, instead of monitoring a cease-fire Ecomog became a major combatant against Taylor's forces. In a conflict resembling a blood feud the fighters are often young orphans whose fathers have been shot by the opposing side.
A film by Mark Stucke and Carlos Mavroleon.
Journeyman Pictures

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[MCRomanWarrior]

Nice

[L2thePz]

its hard to figure out who are the good guys....

[fran21ish]

@logprome1 do you know what journeyman pictures is about? They are not even Americans, they are completely independent film makers,..and at the time America was 100% backing Taylor..so cut it out

[lafarzia]

@biguglytrux agreed!

[logprome1]

I think this is not journalism because the y keep on judging like if the united states had ever done any successfull peacekeeping mission. The same united states that ran away from Somalia when things were getting tough. The same united states than ran away from people who were bearly armed with cutlass in Rwanda. And they even dare to judge us, while they are killing more than one million unarmed civilian in Iraq. You've got to be kidding me.

[logprome1]

It is like if UN was joigning side in ...;

What about Libya.

[truckerpoet]

Arn´t this very old news?

[biguglytrux]

u ppl show news nobody else does. it can't be easy to go to a place like liberia, amidst such brutality. it's hard to tell who's the good guys, or who's bad guys. seems complicated. thanks