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Ellen John-Sirleaf
Has Not Earned Our Supports As we move closer to the anticipated general elections in October
2005, the campaigns for the various candidates are moving into high
gear. Of all this, the candidacy of It is no secret that Mrs. Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf was one of the
original sponsors of the war led by Charles Taylor, the war that was
to end "dictatorship" and usher in a "democratic
change." From the very beginning, while that war was terrorizing
and killing our people in Nimba and elsewhere in Liberia, Mrs. Sirleaf
was on the international stage proclaiming to the world that it was a
"people's power revolution" thereby ignoring the massive
suffering and deaths the war was visiting upon our people for simply
being "Mandingoes and Moslems." It has now become clear to us that part
of the plan of that war was to drive our people out of the country,
take possession of their properties illegally. This was fully ensured
under the dictatorial regime of Charles Taylor. Our people were
prevented from going back to their villages and towns, and were harassed
and threatened and some were killed. This has continued in
post-Taylor Liberia. It is very important to know that the
dispossession of our people of their homes and properties means
disenfranchising them during the coming election. All along Mrs.
Sirleaf and other politicians have remained silent about all these
injustice against our people. It is also alleged that Mrs. Sirleaf was
so adamant in her support for the war that she even said that Taylor
and his hordes of killers should "level the Executive
Mansion and we will rebuild it." At the time Mrs.
Sirleaf made those statements, thousands of our people were seeking
refuge in Monrovia, having being driven out of their villages and
towns of Liberia. If Monrovia had been leveled
as allegedly
called for by Mrs. Sirleaf, most of our people whose supports she
seeks today would not have been around to decide whether or not to
support her candidacy. Even though some of our brothers and sisters may be members of
Ellen's campaign efforts, that does not mean we should keep silent
about those issues affecting our community, issues
that she and other politicians have continued to ignore.
Based on this, we would like to say it loud and clear that
Candidate Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has
yet to come clean and explain the circumstances of her call to Taylor
to level Monrovia. She
has to earn the supports of our community. We are
in full agreement with the position of the National Mandingo Caucus of
Liberia that it doesn’t matter which candidate individual
member of our community supports but which one will have the
courage to address the issues that are affecting my people is the one
that will merit our supports as a group. Until Mrs. Sirleaf can
come out to tell us why she proclaimed to the world that
the Taylor-led war was a "people's power revolution" when
our people were being killed in Tiaplay, Karnplay, Sanniquellie,
Barkedou, Gbarnga and other places of Libera; untill she
can come out to say why she remained silent while our homes and other
properties have been illegally occupied by the remnants of the Taylor
forces in Nimba and elsewhere, she has not earned our supports as a
community. The challenge to her and any other candidate for that
matter is to justify why they deserve our supports. Until then, she
has not earned our supports. |
Mrs.
Ellen Johnson-
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