A key player in the 1989-2003 back-to-back Liberian civil wars, Prince Yomi Johnson died on Thursday at the aged 72, officials from his party and the Senate told AFP.
Johnson was the longest-serving senator reportedly 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.
It will be recalled that fighters loyal to Senator Johnson during their Country Civil wars tortured the then-president Samuel Doe to death in 1990.
The death of Doe was an early bloody episode that would plunge Liberia into two civil wars which killed some 250,000 people and ravaged the economy.
Prince Johnson, who hailed from the northern region of Nimba, later became a preacher in an evangelical church where he enjoyed wide popularity.
He was also a leading opponent of the creation of a tribunal that would try civil war-related crimes.
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