Liberia: I did not kill Quiwonkpa, witness tells TRC
Oct 2008
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October 16, 2008 -- Nearly thirteen years after the abortive 1985 coup, more details have emerged on the killing of coup leader General Thomas Quiwonkpa.
Quiwonkpa was a Commanding General of the Armed Forces of Liberia under President Samuel Doe, but later turned dissident and tried to overthrow Doe. At the time Edward Slanger, at the head of a group of AFL soldiers, claimed on television that they had captured and killed Quiwonkpa.
But as Olive Thomass reports, Slanger this week told the Truth and Reconciliation Commission that he was not actually involved in the incident.
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BBC WST trained journalist Olive
Thomass. Monrovia, September 2008
Thomass. Monrovia, September 2008
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