Prince Johnson, the former Liberian Rebel Leader who tortured and killed dictator Samuel Doe in 1990 and broadcast the event on Liberian television, has denied allegations that he ate Doe’s remains.
Jackson Doe, the brother of Samuel, has made the allegation at Liberia’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Liberia’s president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is trying to reconcile the two parties after the bloody coup which saw many casualties on both sides.
Johnson who is now a senior senator for Nimba County was leader of the Independent National Patriotic Front of Liberia during the coup in 1990, he personally tortured and killed Samuel Doe by cutting off the former dictators ears, but he strongly denies eating the despot.
“I told Liberians and the international community that when Doe died on the base because of series of injuries he was embalmed for 25 years and buried. But along the way, months or a year two later, there was a dirty propaganda that was propagated from the Amos Sawyer (former interim president) camp that we did not bury Doe, that we ate Doe. And of course we from Nimba are not cannibals,” he said.
To prove that Doe had not been consumed Johnson ordered the 25 year old remains to be exhumed and displayed for independent press media to inspect and verify.
“They brought the body of Doe, and it was as hard as a rock, and international journalists took photographs of Samuel Doe after which it was decided by consensus that Doe should not be reburied in the grave but should be burnt and the ashes be thrown into the river. And that is exactly what we did,” Johnson said.
“Even if I was a cannibal, I did not eat Doe because he was embalmed with chemicals for 25 years. So if they can eat human beings with chemicals, we don’t eat human beings with chemicals,” He added.
