The Cannibal Warlords of Liberia (Full Length Documentary)

VICE travels to West Africa to rummage through the messy remains of a country ravaged by 14 years of civil war. Despite the United Nation's eventual intervention, most of Liberia's young people continue to live in abject poverty, surrounded by filth, drug addiction, and teenage prostitution. The former child soldiers who were forced into war have been left to fend for themselves, the murderous warlords who once led them in cannibalistic rampages have taken up as so-called community leaders, and new militias are lying in wait for the opportunity to reclaim their country from a government they rightly mistrust.

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[UnrealAppeal]

Let me get this straight.... Am I mistaken? So these Vice reporters went there, paid some corruption money to release a warlord who probably killed/raped tons of women and children?

[Daniel Aquilina]

LOL at General Mosquito Spray.

[SophiasKallos]

I imagine how happy this journalist was when he got back to his dear country, alive.

[SophiasKallos]

Who wants to have some wonderful and awesome holydays in Liberia this summer?

[Seksyface]

if it wasnt them it'd be someone else.At least you know what situation now. Do you think they are in a position to change shit?

[jeffaral111]

I am from Ghana and people should understand that cannibalism is part of our culture, so you people should be more respectful towards Africanism and less racist.

[KingdomFleur]

wow the UN does nothing for Africans except help its corrupt leaders!! NOOO WAY!! the UN is an evil force

[veltson12345]

no, he meant root.

[Kickyourface87]

they only put him in there because they knew people were coming to interview him as saw it as an opportunity to make a buck.

[bbbjugend]

religion*