LIBERIAN EX-WARLORD PRINCE YORMIE JOHNSON DIES AT 72.(PHOTO).
Liberian ex-warlord Prince Yormie Johnson dies at 72 Former Liberian warlord, Prince Yormie Johnson, a key player in the 1989-2003 back-to-back civil wars, died Thursday aged 72. Officials from his party and the Senate told AFP. Johnson, who was seen sipping beer in a video as fighters loyal to him tortured then president Samuel Doe to death in 1990, was an influential senator. He served as a senator for Nimba County since 2006. A former rebel leader played a prominent role in the First Liberian Civil War. “Senator Johnson was the longest-serving senator,” said Siaffa Jallah, deputy director of press at the Senate. According to reports, the former warlord collapsed in his bathroom during a shower and went into a coma. He was later confirmed dead upon arrival at a local health facility. “Yes, we lost him this morning. He passed away at Hope for Women (health centre)”, Wilfred Bangura, a senior official in Prince Johnson’s Movement for Democracy and Reconstruction party, told AFP. The
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