The Cannibals' War - Liberia

Aug 1996
As the trial of former Liberian dictator Charles Taylor begins, we bring back an exclusive report exposing the atrocities committed by Taylor's men. Filmed in the middle of the civil war, it includes footage of Taylor's supporters preparing to eat a human heart and a rare interview with Taylor.

Our film opens with gigantic US military helicopters hovering over Monrovia. The crackle of Kalashnikovs, 'Liberian music', echoes around the empty streets. This is a city with no laws of humanity as we know them. We discover a band of teenage NPFL fighters at a roadblock. Dead bodies lie at their feet, their chests sliced open from top to bottom, in the style of an African voodoo sacrifice. A boy brandishes a bucket, from which he proudly pulls a human heart. 'If I find my enemy I eat him', he boasts. 'But I only eat military men, not civilians. I am a human being after all.' Some fighters believe that by eating an enemy you get his power. Charles Taylor sums up: 'We have heard of outright cannibalism but this is an issue of war. There is no civilised war. Death is death.' For now the peace is holding. The UN are disarming troops on the streets. The market in Monrovia is full of people once again. But many think that Liberia's young cannibals have gone too far: a doctor prophesies disaster when they become the future leaders.

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[Bob Geldoff]

Savagery?? You mean the cannibalism part?? is thats wot has your titties in a twist??

[Julie Mitchell]

Yeah, that won't work either, because during the Depression literally millions of Americans died of starvation, and they didn't resort to the kind of savagery the negroes do. Plus, Negroes have 1 trillion dollars moving through their community every year. it is the way they live. worthless race. I'm ready for your next stupid and illegitimate argument now.

[Bob Geldoff]

Poverty breeds criminality in any race, i would know i have lived in rough white areas which was full of white on white crime, stabbings, muggings, street gangs etc. And its fucking white peoples fault in the usa that black people live in ghetto neighbourhoods anyway. And then we have the audacity to blame them and in your case make some retarded claim that they have a genetic predisposition to criminality when they turn to crime to make money out of desperation.

[Bob Geldoff]

Poverty breeds criminality in any race, i would know i have lived in rough white areas which was full of white on white crime, stabbings, muggings, street gangs etc. And its fucking white peoples fault in the usa that black people live in ghetto neighbourhoods anyway. And then we have the audacity to blame them and in your case make some retarded claim that they have a genetic predisposition to criminality when they turn to crime to make money out of desperation.

[Julie Mitchell]

Just think of how significant this kind of power-group relation and activity is, in concealing negro criminality, the non-stop promotion of negro-worship and mixing with negroes, the sick and insane propaganda and sales-pitches for more foreign aid to negro countries, armies of volunteers to help the 'poor innocent negroes', crazed squads of missionaries and do-gooders adopting niglets and feeding, vaccinating, keeping even the worst hookworm-and-AIDS-infested negro alive at any cost

[Julie Mitchell]

They've had at least 2,000 yrs. of practice at this, and they've perfected it through the consolidation and development of their hold on the media.

[Julie Mitchell]

And its much, much worse. Integration was bad enough, welfare for niggers was worse, busing and apefirmative action was another new low, its one victory after another for the Jews that proudly and openly boast of their leading role in shoving these subsidized pet negroes down our throats. Negroes make perfect foot-soldiers for communism, and the Jews know this very well.

[Julie Mitchell]

These alpha white men were motivated by the understanding that they HAD to stand up and take the risk and the responsibility on themselves to deal with these savage niggers, BECAUSE NO ONE ELSE WOULD. The corrupt local politicians and rich bastards wouldn't. The government wouldn't. And this is EXACTLY where the ENTIRE country finds itself today.

[Julie Mitchell]

The Klan became a more secretive and militant white self-defense society, because they understood that if the government allowed negroes to vote, they would bring nothing but chaos and vote themselves every kind of plunder from the government. Can anyone really blame them for taking things to the next level sometimes when they felt it was especially important to send a message to these wild and totally unrestrained compact masses of niggers utilized by their oppressors?

[Julie Mitchell]

But the South was a invaded and conquered, occupied country, and in the chaos that followed, they simply HAD to take measures to protect themselves, their families, their property, and what remained of their former way of life, not only from the Federal Government troops PROTECTING THESE NEGROES, but from negroes that had just been freed from slavery without any thought as to what they just might do to the helpless domestic white population of an utterly broken and desolated land.