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We Are Tired Of War

The Inquirer (Monrovia)
EDITORIAL
August 6, 2004
Posted to the web August 6, 2004
Monrovia
AS A RESULT of the crisis within the former warring movement, residents of the
Bushrod Island community ran helter-skelter earlier this week when violence
erupted between the two opposing sides of LURD.
THE SITUATION WHICH resulted to the injury of few persons, was swiftly brought
under control when the United Nations Mission in Liberia promptly deployed its
troops at strategic locations across the city to calm the tension.
AS ALL EFFORTS are being applied by UNMIL to maintain the relative peace that
has been obtaining in the city for the last several months, one of the group's
influential leader who is opposed to the Sekou Conneh-led leadership of the
organization, NTLA Speaker George Dweh, was yesterday quoted by a local daily
as threatening renewed war across the city if Mr. Conneh goes to the same
compound they both occupied before his departure from the country sometime ago.
WHILE WE WOULD not want to lend credence to the leadership nonsense in LURD, we
are constrained to come out at this time, because of the 'war threat' by
Speaker Dweh, one of the founders of LURD. We find it disheartening that at
this time when efforts are being made for peace, a senior government official
instead of finding ways to ending the war is threatening another war.
BUT ALL WE can say to the Speaker is that the Liberian people are tired of
continued senseless war. No matter the situation in the group, it is
preposterous or inconceivable that the speaker would make a threat of another
war. Instead, the speaker should be exerting efforts to resolve whatever
conflict that exists in the group.
AFTER YEARS OF war, it is un-nationalistic that any Liberian would make any
threat of war no matter whatever problem exists. From the experience of the
bitter 14 years of conflict, every Liberian should never think about another
war because war does not solve any conflict. This is evidenced by the years of
conflict which ended on a conference table.
TO THE SPEAKER and other war mongers, we say, the Liberian people are tired of
war; they are tired being killed, raped, harassed, intimidated, tortured and
molested by so-called freedom fighters, self-styled liberators and self-
proclaimed messiahs.
AGAIN, WE SAY NO to another WAR.

   

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