“When Charles Taylor won the election, he started to train children for the national military. We released a report on it to the national media, and that’s when the government started to look for me. They went to my high school and shut it down. I went into hiding, staying in friends’ houses, and for three weeks there was this intense search going on. They arrested my friends and interrogated them. I left Liberia disguised as a traditional dancer. My mother didn’t know I had left the country. Most people in Liberia thought the government had found me and killed me.”
My friend Kimmie Weeks on how he become aware his life was in danger.
Full interview here
Full interview here