Tom Woewiyu

Thomas Jucontee Woewiyu is a former leader of the National Patriotic Front of Liberia. Woewiyu served as Defense minister in the NPFL along with Charles Taylor and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. [1] [2]

In 1994, as a result of ideological dissent, Woewiyu broke away from Taylor's forces and created his own movement: the NPFL-CRC (National Patriotic Front of Liberia, Central Revolutionary Council). He and Sam Dokie led the movement. Woewiyu later made multiple accusations of war crimes against Taylor, claiming that Taylor not only murdered his rival Jackson Doe, but drank Doe's blood.[3]

In May 2014 he was arrested while visiting the US. His indictment focused on technical violations on his citizenship application it also accuses him of being a war criminal.[1] He pled not guilty and was denied bail. [4] The FBI indicated that it planned to charge Woewiyu in relation to the 1992 killing of 5 American nuns Liberia. [5]

References

  1. 1 2 Butty, James (15 May 2014). "Charles Taylor’s Former Defense Minister Arrested in US". Voice of America. Retrieved 13 June 2015.
  2. ↑ "Long arm of the law". Economist. 15 May 2014. Retrieved 22 May 2015.
  3. ↑ Stephen Ellis, The Mask of Anarchy: the Destruction of Liberia and the Religious Dimension of an African Civil War, C Hurst & Co, 1999. ISBN 1-85065-401-8. p 85
  4. ↑ Butty, James (15 May 2014). "Former Liberia Defense Minister Denied Bail by US Judge". Voice of America. Retrieved 22 June 2015.
  5. ↑ MILLER, T. CHRISTIAN (15 May 2014). "The Unsolved Case of the Murder of American Nuns in Liberia". Voice of America. Retrieved 22 June 2015.
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