Some of the worst atrocities committed against Australian prisoners of war by their Japanese captors occurred in camps far away from the Thai-Burma Railway and Changi.
This week in history: April 5–11
4 April 2021
Marine helicopter in Liberia
On April 6, 1996, fighting broke out between rival militias in Liberia. Some 20,000 civilians took refuge at the United States embassy to escape the bloody battles, and in the following weeks hundreds of civilians were killed and much of downtown Monrovia was destroyed.
The fighting began when the Council of State a temporary governing body implemented in the run-up to elections, including Charles Taylor and Alhaji Kromah ordered its forces to arrest General Roosevelt Johnson of the United Liberation Movement (ULIMO-J) on charges of murder. Reports had been circulating since January claiming that his forces were responsible for the massacre of 50 civilians. Johnson was not given a seat on the Council of State and staged an occupation of the Barclay Training Center, which erupted in street fighting.