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Liberia Holds Funeral For Ex-Leader Samuel Doe Decades After Assassination.

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Last updated: 2025/06/27 at 2:08 PM
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Hundreds of people gathered on Friday in rural Liberia for the state funeral of authoritarian former president, Samuel Doe, 35 years after his assassination, part of the country’s ongoing reconciliation efforts over its violent past.

Doe’s brutal 1990 torture and murder were an early turning point in the two civil wars that killed around 250,000 people and ravaged Liberia’s economy.

He is being commemorated at his home compound in southeastern Grand Gedeh County alongside his wife, Nancy, who died in May and will be buried at the estate.

Liberians gathered along the route Friday as the couple’s caskets — his symbolic, and hers containing her body — were slowly driven through the county capital of Zwedru on the bed of a truck decorated in bunting in the country’s red, white and blue colours.

The state ceremony is being attended by President Joseph Boakai, who declared a period of mourning this week from Tuesday to Friday, with flags flown at half-mast.

His executive mansion Facebook page said the commemorations are part of a “broader effort” meant to “promote national reconciliation”.

The circumstances surrounding Doe’s death mark a notorious episode in Liberia’s history.

Infamous warlord Prince Johnson, a key player in the civil wars (1989 to 2003), appeared in a video watching his fighters slowly mutilate and torture Doe to death while he calmly sipped a beer.

Various rumours but little concrete information exists as to the fate and location of Doe’s remains following his death.

Doe’s own rise to power was also steeped in violence.

His 1980 to 1990 rule remains divisive, remembered by many Liberians as a brutal dictatorship, while others recall some transformative measures he implemented fondly.

Liberian Mercy Janjay Seeyougar told AFP in Monrovia ahead of the funeral that she remembered how Doe once gave her a candy, and that during street cleanings, he would “stop and be with the people who are doing the cleaning”.

In 1980, Doe, then an army sergeant in his late 20s, led a coup, assassinating President William Tolbert, the last in a line of leaders from the Americo-Liberian ruling class comprised of the descendants of former US slaves.

Quickly establishing a regime of terror, Doe had 13 members of the government he had overthrown publicly executed on a beach and his regime subsequently jailed or persecuted many of its opponents.

He was elected in a 1985 presidential vote that many observers said was marked by fraud.

The brutality of his regime, combined with declining economic conditions and favouritism towards the Krahn ethnic group of which he was a member, led to increased unpopularity.

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