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  Samuel Kanyon Doe, Dictator of the Month, November 2003
Since Samuel Doe was the highest ranking non-commissioned officer of the 18 plotters, all but him ordinary soldiers, he became Chairman of the People's Redemption Council (PRC) that was created.
Samuel Doe was not a publicly known figure in Liberia before April 12, 1980.
Dr Samuel K. Doe - he had received an Honorary Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Political Science from the University of Seoul during one of his numerous visits abroad - was sworn in as Liberia's 20th President, and First President of the Second Republic, on January 6, 1986.
www.dictatorofthemonth.com /Doe/Nov2003DoeEN.htm   (1435 words)

  
 Samuel K. Doe
Dr Samuel K. Doe – he had received an Honorary Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Political Science from the University of Seoul during one of his numerous visits abroad – was sworn in as Liberia’s 20th President, and First President of the Second Republic, on January 6, 1986.
Doe was tortured, mutilated and finally brutally killed by Johnson and his men, among whom John Yormie, while all gruesome details were videotaped.
Doe’s repressive military dictatorship and his transformation from a shy, thin, softspoken Master Sergeant into a corpulent, well-fed and well-clad Commander-In-Chief earned him a place next to other notorious heads of state like Idi Amin (Uganda), Jean-Bedel Bokasso (Central Africa), and ‘Baby’ Doc (Haiti).
www.liberiapastandpresent.org /SamuelKDoe.htm   (1710 words)

  
  Department of Energy - DOE Announces up to $200 Million in Funding for Biorefineries
These projects complement DOE’s announcement earlier this year, which makes available up to $385 million over four years for the development of six full-scale biorefineries.
DOE requests applicants to design, construct and operate an integrated biorefinery demonstration facility, employing lignocellulosic feedstocks for the production of some combination of liquid transportation fuel(s), biobased chemicals, and substitutes for petroleum-based feedstocks and products.
DOE seeks projects that can rapidly move to commercial-scale, supported by a sound business strategy and; encourages applications that demonstrate breakthrough technologies and collaboration between industry, universities, and DOE’s national laboratories.
www.doe.gov /news/5031.htm   (599 words)

  
 AFRICA.BOU
The ten-year regime of President Samuel K. Doe, characterized by its utter disregard for human rights, came to a violent end in 1990 with the killing of Doe and the disintegration of the country into warring factions.
President Doe, an ethnic Krahn, had surrounded himself with members of his own ethnic group, providing economic and educational opportunities for them at the expense of the rest of the population, and permitting the mostly Krahn military and police to commit egregious abuses against civilians.
Doe's government was particularly hostile toward the Manos and Gios because of an abortive coup attempt in 1985, led by Thomas Qwiwonkpa, a former general from Nimba, who was a Gio.
www.hrw.org /reports/1990/WR90/AFRICA.BOU-04.htm   (2488 words)

  
 Discovery Times :: Liberia: An Uncivil War: Cast of Characters
Samuel K. Doe: A master sergeant in the Liberian army trained by the U.S. Green Berets, Doe was also a member of the Krahn, an indigenous ethnic group.
Doe summarily executed members of the previous government in droves and reportedly had the leader of a failed coup against him castrated and dismembered.
Doe held the presidency until 1989, when he was overthrown in a coup and executed.
times.discovery.com /convergence/liberia/bios.html   (1129 words)

  
 Global Connections . Liberia . Timeline | PBS
April 12, 1980: Samuel K. Doe, a master sergeant of Krahn descent in the Liberian army, overthrows the government in a bloody coup.
Doe claims victory in a presidential election under a cloud of controversy and charges of vote-rigging.
President Doe is captured and killed by a rebel faction led by Prince Johnson.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/globalconnections/liberia/timeline/time4.html   (1168 words)

  
 The Analyst Newspaper : Liberia : 2007
Doe Community is one of the several slumps that have not benefited from major development such as the one ongoing road reconstruction.
Doe Community is a marshy land located between Jamaica road and Clara Town and forms part of District #10 in Montserrado County.
It was established by the Samuel Doe-led Peoples Redemption Council (PRC) that came to power on April 12, 1980 after a bloody dethronement of the True Whig Party (TWP) government of the President W. Tolbert, Jr.
www.analystliberia.com /doe_comm_road_project_apr23_07.html   (627 words)

  
 Samuel K. Doe   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Samuel K. Does Amtszeit als Präsident war von großer Grausamkeit und der Unterdrückung jeglicher Opposition gekennzeichnet.
Doe errichtete durch viele Manipulationen den äußerlichen Schein einer geordneten, ja demokratischen Regierung, was jedoch kaum ein Kenner der Zustände im Lande wirklich ernst nahm.
Doe machte Liberia zu einer Steueroase für Nordamerikaner und Europäer, die auch ansehnliche Summen Geldes ins Land brachten.
www.biologie.de /biowiki/Samuel_K._Doe   (388 words)

  
 The Civil War in Liberia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Master Sergeant Samuel K. Doe was a indigenous Liberian from the Krahn ethnic group.
The top coup leaders were Master Sergeant Samuel K. Doe, who was announced head of State; Sergeant Thomas Weh-Syen, Vice Head of State; and Sergeant Thomas Quiwonkpa, "Strongman of the Revolution" as Commanding General of the Armed Forces of Liberia.
Doe's government increasingly adopted an ethnic outlook, as members of his Krahn ethnic group soon dominated political and military life in Liberia.
www.bong-town.com /Bong_Town/Liberia/1980-Coup.html   (272 words)

  
 Crimes Of War Project > The Book
The decision of the United States to support the 1980 coup of an obscure Liberian army master sergeant, Samuel K. Doe, and, subsequently, to bolster Doe's corrupt and chaotic dictatorship for the decade that it lasted, led ineluctably to the disaster of the civil war.
For if the war to overthrow Doe soon became a grotesque story of horror, greed, and atrocity in which every tenet of humanitarian law was broken on a daily basis by all sides, the seeds had been sown in the period of Doe's rule.
Doe's tribal allies within the army hierarchy first isolated and then began killing troops from other tribes, whom they assumed to be sympathetic to Taylor’s National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL).
www.crimesofwar.org /thebook/liberia.html   (1399 words)

  
 DOE - Office of Nuclear Energy
The Department of Energy (DOE) published the Final Rule on Loan Guarantees for Projects that Employ Innovative Technologies, establishing regulations for the program authorized by Title XVII of the Energy Policy Act of 2005.
China, France, Japan, Russia and the United States, who are original GNEP partners, as well as Australia, Bulgaria, Ghana, Hungary, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, and Ukraine signed a “Statement of Principles”, which addresses the prospects of expanding the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, including enhanced safeguards, international fuel service frameworks, and advanced technologies.
WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Samuel W. Bodman today released a Conditional Agreement for companies building new nuclear power plants in the United States to qualify for a portion of $2 billion in federal risk insurance.
www.ne.doe.gov   (862 words)

  
 UNICCO.org - United Nimba Citizen's Council
Samuel Doe, then President of Liberia, directed and participated in the mass murder of Nimba citizens, including Eugene Kidau, James Greboe, J. Exodus Kerdoe, D. Wonserleay, Gehfahn Dokie, Peter Wonserleay, Lewis Dokie, etc. As a reward for these acts, Mr.
Doe promoted Julu to a full general and assigned him as the head of the Executive Mansion Guard.
Presently, Julu lives happily with his family in Liberia and is now reported to be one of the heads of the rebel movements, while the wives and children of his victims slowly die of and in misery.
www.unicco.org /articles/article18.html   (1110 words)

  
 Doe Samuel Kanyon - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Doe Samuel Kanyon - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Doe, Samuel Kanyon (1951-1990), Liberian military ruler (1980-1990).
In the early 1990s, Monrovia was the scene of widespread looting and violence in the aftermath of the assassination of Liberian leader Samuel K. Doe,...
uk.encarta.msn.com /Doe_Samuel_Kanyon.html   (110 words)

  
 Department of Energy - Poudre High School From Fort Collins , Colorado Wins U.S. Department of Energy National Science ...
DOE recognizes all the students who competed as true mathematics and science stars, representing the nation’s next generation of scientists and engineers.
DOE created the National Science Bowl in 1991 to encourage high school students to excel in mathematics and science and to pursue careers in these fields.
DOE supports mathematics and science education to help provide a technically trained and diverse workforce for the nation.
www.doe.gov /news/5024.htm   (912 words)

  
 Department of Energy - Department of Energy Requests $24.3 Billion for FY 2008 Budget
DOE’s Office of Science is the single largest federal supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the nation and its $4.4 billion request will help ensure U.S. leadership across a broad range of scientific disciplines.
DOE’s FY 2008 request includes $75 million for three innovative Bioenergy Research Centers to accelerate basic research in the development of cellulosic ethanol and other biofuels and make biofuel production cost-effective on a national scale to meet the President’s goals.
The FY 2008 budget request sets DOE on a path to file a license application no later than June 30, 2008, continue the facility planning and safety design, make critical infrastructure upgrades at Yucca Mountain to ensure worker safety and operational efficiency, and build on national transportation planning activities.
www.doe.gov /news/4706.htm   (1777 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: )
It's been a pleasure to welcome Liberian Head of State Samuel K. Doe on his first visit to the United States.
Chairman Doe told me of his government's ambitious goals, including the return to democratic institutions and economic stabilization.
Earlier, the President and Chairman Doe, Head of State and Chairman of the People's Redemption Council, met in the Oval Office.
www.reagan.utexas.edu /archives/speeches/1982/81782d.htm   (694 words)

  
 July 13, 2003
Doe, even while he established one of the continent's most brutal dictatorships.
Doe flirted briefly with Libya, then astutely aligned his country with Washington and was henceforth allowed to pocket American aid with few questions asked.
Doe sent a message that there was no point in moderate opposition.
www.genocidewatch.org /LiberiaJuly13Tragedy.htm   (997 words)

  
 CNN - Liberia torn by long civil war - April 30, 1996
They ruled the country until 1980, when native Liberian Samuel K. Doe overthrew the American-descended president, William Tolbert, and imposed martial law.
Doe, leader of the minority Krahn tribe, was tortured to death.
The Monrovia barracks, the training ground for Doe's former national army, the Armed Forces of Liberia, is now the symbol of resistance for the Krahn tribe.
www.cnn.com /WORLD/9604/30/liberia/background.html   (831 words)

  
 Liberia- Country Profile
Doe named himself chairman of the People's Redemption Council (PRC), ruling in conjunction with a council of ministers drawn from former opposition groups.
Doe and his National Democratic Party (NDPL) won the elections, although opposition groups and outside observers said the results were rigged.
In September 1990, President Doe was captured and executed by rebels under Prince Yeduo Johnson, who split with the NPFL to form his own rival faction.
www.wvi.org /wvi/country_profile/profiles/liberia.htm   (1511 words)

  
 LiberianForum.Com ~ Liberian Information Online
THE SAMUEL DOE regime whose policy was chiefly watering the seeds of tribalism at all government institutions especially in the army is a typical example.” The unknown author of Forum continues, “NOT ONLY WAS the government realistic, it was equally tyrannical to the point where it led Liberia into war.” Well, Mr.
During Samuel K. Doe’s regime, the heads of the Liberian Legislative Branch of the Liberian Government were from Bomi and Lofa Counties respectively.
When Samuel K. Doe was the head of the Executive Branch, Krahn man has never ever become a Minister of Foreign Affairs, Justice, Commerce, Labor, National Security, Information, Planning and Economic Affairs, Health and Social Welfare, Transportation, Postal Affairs, Public Works, Internal Affairs, Rural Development, Agriculture, just to name a few.
www.liberianforum.com /articles/htarr002.htm   (817 words)

  
 Prince Y. Johnson is Back to Nigeria
Videos of Samuel Doe being tortured and questioned by John Yormie, a close lieutenant of Prince Y. Johnson (who is said to have been executed by Charles Taylor in 2003) were sold throughout the world in the 1990s and somehow epitomized the barbaric and savage nature of the Liberian war.
In August 1990, Samuel K. Doe, Prince Y. Johnson and Charles Taylor constituted what one could term as “the triumvirate of death.” The three men and their followers brought the nation to its knees through killings and destruction.
It would have been a sad irony that after the death of Samuel K. Doe, the resignation of Charles Taylor, Liberians were to provide Prince Johnson with a senatorial seat in the Capitol.
www.theperspective.org /2004/apri/princeyjohnson.html   (508 words)

  
 Corpses at Our Doorstep
Doe's hold on power by showering him with $500 million in taxpayer dollars, the most aid granted any African nation.
Doe's war of misery, atrocity and attrition against rival gangsters ("warlords" is far too grand a name for the greed-driven thugs that vie for the spoils of control).
Doe, who was hacked into pieces in the presidential mansion.
www.commondreams.org /views03/0725-06.htm   (854 words)

  
 The United States, Libya and the Liberian Civil War
Noble01.jpg: Master Sgt. Samuel K. Doe, Liberia’s former chief of state, flourished a walkie-talkie radio as he posed with members of the ruling “People’s Redemption Council,” shortly after the 1980 overthrow of President William R. Tolbert Jr.
Samuel Dokie, a longtime political activist who trained in Libya with Taylor during the early months of the war, put it simply: “Taylor is Qaddafi’s surrogate” and his election is also “Qaddafi’s biggest victory in Africa.”
As it happens, Doe was fascinated with air shows and had become fixated on the idea of putting on a flying exhibition, complete with stunt planes and precision parachute jumping, to celebrate his rise to power.
www.aliciapatterson.org /APF1804/Noble/Noble.html   (1792 words)

  
 Running Africa
The late Samuel K. Doe and Colonel Ghadafi’s feud resulted in the severing of diplomatic relation between the two countries.
The two leaders, after a near fist fight, became bitter enemies and thence the late Samuel K. Doe began witch hunting opposition politicians suspected of having ties to Libya while Colonel Ghadafi, on the other hand sought the loophole to undo the late Samuel K. Doe’s regime.
Samuel K. Doe’s “Let pay the US debt” massive campaign culminated in a dead end of a cordial relationship between him and the late Ronald Regan.
runningafrica.com /news-06042006Sirleaf_Libya.html   (707 words)

  
 Samuel K. Doe - definition erklärung bedeutung glossar zu Samuel K. Doe   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Samuel K. Doe Amtszeit als Präsident war von großer Grausamkeit und der Unterdrückung jeglicher Opposition gekennzeichnet.
April 1980 putschte sich der noch sehr junge Doe an die Macht, indem er den damaligen Präsidenten William R. Tolbert, Jr.
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www.adlexikon.de /Samuel_K_Doe.shtml   (589 words)

  
 Untitled Document
That was just months after Master Sergeant Samuel Doe and his small band of noncommissioned officers came to power in a bloody coup d’état.
Samuel K. Doe, whose initials, people said, stood for “steal, kill and destroy,” had seized power in April 1980, a month before Best, his wife Mae Gene and their three young children were due to return to Liberia from Nairobi, Kenya.
Doe was captured and killed by Charles Taylor’s rebel forces during the country’s civil war, which began in December 1989, but forces loyal to him went about destroying much of Monrovia before retreating from the capital.
www.freemedia.at /Heroes_IPIReport2.00/04Best.htm   (1404 words)

  
 War Crimes - Liberia : Doe Coup 1980
Taylor, Doe's former procurement chief, is an Americo-Liberian of both indigenous and Americo-Liberian ancestry.
In response to this insurgency, President Doe launched an unrelenting wave of violence against the inhabitants of Nimba County.
Although many Liberians were glad to see Doe's repressive regime removed, no group that emerged from the civil war was powerful enough to replace the Doe government.
www.warcrimes.info /shop/html/modules.php?name=News&file=print&sid=287   (2788 words)

  
 History of Liberia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Doe's forces executed President William R. Tolbert and several officials of his government, mostly of Americo-Liberian descent.
On December 24, 1989, a small band of rebels led by Doe's former procurement chief, Charles Taylor, invaded Liberia from the Ivory Coast.
Taylor and his National Patriotic Front rebels rapidly gained the support of Liberians because of the repressive nature of Samuel Doe and his government.
www.historyofnations.net /africa/liberia.html   (1263 words)

  
 Liberia: History — FactMonster.com
Doe became Liberia's first indigenous president (by a fraudulent election) in 1985.
The Doe government was infamous for corruption and human-rights abuses; it also became the target of numerous coup attempts.
Doe was assassinated in 1990 by another group of rebels led by Prince Yormie Johnson, who also sought the presidency.
www.factmonster.com /ce6/world/A0859267.html   (1349 words)

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