Che, thanks for the forward.  I get irritated each time I hear Africans with this sung and dance about TRC?  The world over, they are hunting their war criminals and relieving them off their misery for justice for the thousands they victimized, less another attempt it.  Then, enters Africans.  One comes and tells us he killed 20,000 and ate so many and we organize an all night drumming session accompanied with sung and dance and that is what the "Noble Savage" needs, lest they kill 20,000 more for they cannot manage their affairs.  You think Hitler would be still rotting in jail today, had they caught him alive?  Did the Italians send Mussolini through a TRC?  How about Chuchesku (spelling)?  How about Sadam?  The list goes on.  Then why is it that Africans are fed with this garbage and we swallow it whole?  Why would this criminal stand here with this con of preaching "The Word" when he should have been behind bars, waiting for his faith to be judged?  You think Ben Laden will be put through a TRC, should the West nab him alive?  How absurd.  You also think any of those South Africans that sat in the con called TRC to this day don't want to shred the murderers that mutilated their loved ones and described in while seeping a glass of cold water? Had South Africans followed L. Sullivan with that silliness of "Constructive Engagement", they would still be butchered by the regime of the Boers.  Then, why in hell would you then swallow that nonsense of a TRC where the murderers continue with their life while misery for thousands of victims continues?  It is those invisible victims that are unleashing their misery on all South Africans today in the senseless crimes in that country, because at the end of the day, one must release to avoid exploding.   
 
Oh, no, we managed to convince ourselves, that we are special humans and have higher reasoning, and that it takes higher faculties and strength to forgive your murderers.  Nonsense!  How come McVey was not allowed to confess and Americans cry, sing, and dance and let him loose with a Bible at some corner, near me in Chicago, doing The Lord's Work"?  Now, the same creative mind will let mass murderers roam the streets but will fill their jails with pick pockets, coalpot thieves, etc.  Folks, this does not make any sense.  The day we stop this nonsense, the better for us.  It is this mindset that is the reason why we are the most murdered in the 20th and 21th Century and most of the masterminds are living in luxury for decades while their victims in their thousands suffer for generations to their deaths.  TRC is an extension of our colonized minds and that is the reason why Africans will continue to live with injustice for the long haul.  Interestingly, those same champions of TRC are the same ones that did not even sneeze when Sadam was being hanged.  Folks, the penalty for certain crimes must be death, lest another try it again and Africa has suffered enough from the hands of multitude murderers.  Even religions write that their Gods will roast "evil doers", then why do we peddle such foolishness as a TRC?  Long after Foday Sanko is gone, naturally, his victims will for generations unborn, suffer the misery he leveled on them.  They wake up with their misery and go to bed with their misery with no end to it but death.  It is all about Justice for the countless victims of this lunatic.  Anything less is a tragedy. 
 
Chi Jaama
 
Joe> Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:49:41 +0000> From: [log in to unmask]> Subject: I ate children's hearts, ex-rebel says> To: [log in to unmask]> > > > > > > By Jonathan Paye-Layleh BBC News, Monrovia > > Milton Blahyi, a former feared rebel commander in Liberia's brutal civil war, has admitted to taking part in human sacrifices as part of traditional ceremonies intended to ensure victory in battle. > He said the sacrifices "included the killing of an innocent child and plucking out the heart, which was divided into pieces for us to eat." > There had been numerous rumours of human sacrifices during the 1979-93 conflict but this is the first time anyone has admitted publicly to the practice. Mr Blahyi, 37, is better known in Liberia as "General Butt Naked" because he went into combat with no clothes on, to scare the enemy. > He is now an Evangelist preacher, who prefers to use the name Joshua. He was speaking to the BBC, after telling Liberia's Truth Commission that his forces had killed 20,000 people. > > Forgiveness > Mr Blahyi said he had first become exposed to killings in 1982 when, at the age of 11, he was ordained "the traditional priest of my tribe." > He explained that when a rebellion broke out against President Samuel Doe, he had to go to war on behalf of the president, as they were from the same Krahn ethnic group. He fought against the militia of Charles Taylor, currently on trial for war crimes in The Hague. As the traditional priest, he says he persuaded the "hesitant" political leaders of his faction to make a human sacrifice before going into battle. "They asked me to do it in secret; but some of the sacrifices are supposed to be as a ceremony; so my boys and I made some of the sacrifices in the open." > Mr Blahyi did not say where they had found the children to be killed. > > He said he thought that confessing to what he had done and asking for forgiveness could help heal the country's wounds. "I have been looking for an opportunity to tell the true story about my life; and every time I tell people my story, I feel relieved," he said, drinking a bottle of tomato juice in the capital, Monrovia. He stopped fighting in 1996, saying God appeared to him as he was charging naked into battle and told him he was doing Satan's work. > > 'Ashamed' > He is now often seen preaching on street corners and churches in Monrovia. "I now preach against murder and making human sacrifices," he said. "Some people see me and congratulate me. "Others see me and say I should not be walking down the streets of Monrovia posing proud. But I continue to tell such people I am not proud, I am ashamed." Between the time he was ordained a "traditional priest" and the time he stopped fighting, he said, "more than 20,000 people fell victim - they were killed." > > Warlord > The commission, modelled on South Africa's post-apartheid Truth and Reconciliation Commission, began earlier this month. Some, however, say Liberia's Truth Commission is too weak and argue that a war crimes court should be established - Mr Taylor is being accused by a court set up to investigate the conflict in neighbouring Sierra Leone. "If you have an individual admitting that he and his group killed over 20,000 people, certainly there should be a mechanism put in place for such people to face justice," said Mulbah Morlue, who heads the Forum for the Establishment of a War Crimes Court in Liberia. The war is now over but thousands of UN peacekeepers remain in the country. While asking for forgiveness, Mr Blahyi says he's ready for whatever the truth commission will decide to do to him. "I could be electrocuted, I could be hanged," he said. "But I think forgiveness and reconciliation is the right way to go." He also urged other former fighters to confess their doings because "wherever they go there is a stigma on them". But another former warlord, Prince Johnson, says he will not appear before the commission unless he is compelled to do so. Mr Johnson, now a senator, led the forces who tortured and killed then President Doe in 1990. The video of this brutal killing is still on sale in Liberia. He says that he has already made his peace with the Doe family but would testify at the truth hearings if they lodged a formal complaint. > > Story from BBC NEWS:http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/africa/7200101.stmPublished: 2008/01/22 00:38:04 GMT> _________________________________________________________________> Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE!> http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/> ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤> To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface> at: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/gambia-l.html> > To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: http://listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?S1=gambia-l> To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to:> [log in to unmask]> ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤> 
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