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Tuesday, September 19, 2023

 


                        Flight from Monrovia - Part 3



        One morning, in August, peeking out from the balcony, I saw a group of armed people, men, some women among them, none of them soldiers, but armed,  showing up at the end of the street, with guns up in the air, walking and shouting "Peace, it’s peace time now!” I called the other people in the house. They were watching and commenting.

"What peace? They finished? Can’t believe such thin’!”  However, the people started walking up the street in our direction, calling everybody outside, with "Yoh not be scared! We want peace now! Let the war finish”. People started showing up at windows, in doors, some braver ones walked out in front of the buildings. "This is a trap”, our boss concluded. We pulled back and let the people pass, walking up the street.

The news came on the radio that ...

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