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1992-11-19
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2017-05-15
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  1. “The Government and people of Sierra Leone hold Charles Taylor responsible for the armed attack he launched against my country and for the human and material damage he has inflicted against my country and its people. Sierra Leone therefore supports the cali on this Council by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to impose a complete embargo on all deliveries of weapons and military equipment to Liberia, especially against Charles Taylor and his NPFL rebels, and to request all States to respect the measures established by ECOWAS to bring about a peaceful solution to the conflict in Liberia. In this way, Taylor's aggression against my country would be stemmed and his pillaging stopped.”

    1992-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3138 (1992) · source

  2. “On behalf of my country and its people, I appeal to the Council to take urgent action to put a stop, once and for all, to the brigandage of Charles Taylor and his NPFL rebels, which, if not stopped in its tracks, could lead to instability and insecurity in the whole subregion. Today it is Sierra Leone that is under attack, but there are other small and equal!y vulnerable countries in the subregion that should not be allowed to fall prey to a fugitive warlord whose aim is to make Liberia a narcocentre for drug trafficking in our region if he is once able to shoot his way into power in Monrovia. We believe that the international comunity should not tolerete such criminal conduct against a State Member of this Organization.”

    1992-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3138 (1992) · source

  3. “Sierra Leone, as a small country that has remained faithful to this Organization and over the years has invested its international security in it, is therefore appearing before this Council to request its assistance in repelling Taylor's aggression. This body, as the custodian of international peace and security, particularly the security of small nations, cannot sit idly oy while a group of bandits let loose by the total breakdown of law and order in a neighbouring State and armed and/or supported by some States in the African region that see it as their mission to spread world revolution in the name of religion, continues to engage in a campaign of destabilization and terror against a peaceful and vulnerable Member of this Organization.”

    1992-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3138 (1992) · source

  4. “He has failed to comply with any of the agreements for a poaceful resolution of the conflict into which he voluntarily entered. Instead of observing a cease-fire and disarming and encamping his fighters, Taylor has used every form of subterfuge and chicanery to scuttle all those agreements and, recently, he has leunched a military offensive 'against the peace-keaping force in Liberia with heavy weapons he had been receiving and stockpiling while pratending to be seeking a negotiated settlement to the conflict. Inste..1 ef withdrawing from the parts of my country that he and his rebel fighters are now occupying, Taylor, like ali tyrants before him, has lately been making territorial claims against my country, blaming Britain for the present international boundaries that exist between Sierra Leone and Liberia.”

    1992-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3138 (1992) · source

  5. “At the same time, this warlord and his rebels have continued to cause social and ecological depredations in the areas of their operations, destroying public buildings, banks - such as Barclays - schools, hospitals and clinics. Thus it can be seen that, both in terms of humaa life and of material destruction, the conflict in Liberia has proved very costly for my country and agonizing for its people. Meanwhile, all efforts by the States in the subregion and by this Organization to bring the Liberian conflict to a peaceful resolution by calling for a cease-fire betwaen the various factions, for the disarmament and encampment of their fighting men and for the holding of free and democratic elections to be held have come to naught because of the intransigence of Taylor and his NPFL rebels.”

    1992-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3138 (1992) · source

  6. “Herein lies the paradoxical and agonizing experience for my country: because we allowed our territory to be used to bring peace to Liberia, Charlies Taylor and his hordes of rebels, in violation of international law and in violation of the Charter of the United Nations, launched an armed invasion of my country and continues to occupy parts of it. Also in violation of the basic tenets of humanitarian principles, Charles Taylor has killed aud continues to kill and maim fnaocent civilians, inclyding those villagers who had earlier extended sanctuary to Liberians fleeing their homeland, by attacking them in their sleep and putting thoir homes to the *orch.”

    1992-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3138 (1992) · source

  7. “It was because of this humanitarian concern and because Sierra Leone happens to be a neighbouring country of Liberia and had allowed its territory to be used as a base for the peace-keeping forces in Liberia that one of the factions in the conflict in Liberia, headed by Charlies Taylor and his band of National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL) rebels, launched a premeditated armed attack against my country. In his perfidious act against my country, Charles Taylor was motivated by the fact chat the Government of Sierra Leone, to prevent the civil war in Liberia from esalating and to avoid prolonging it, had denied the use of cur territory by Taylor to infiltrate weapons into Liberia. So no sooner was he able to capture the border region of Liberia than, os an act of revenge, he decided to leunch an armed attack against my coui.try.”

    1992-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3138 (1992) · source

  8. “With the intensification of the armed conflict in Liberia, with the total 'breakdown of law and order as Liberians curned on each other and engaged in orgies of mass killings - even of women and children who had sought sanctuary in a church ~ with other unspeakabie atrocities being committed, and in the absence of any effective authority in that country, the States of the West African subregion, including Sierra Leone, after great soul-searching and purely for humanitarian reasons, basing themselves on the Charter of the United Nations and on the Treaty of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) - which calls for solidarity, unity, mutual trust and good neighbourlinesas - and convinced that the continuation of the Liberian conflict was a threat to the peace and security of the subregion, decided to send a peace-keeping force, the Economic Community Monitoring Group (ECOMOG), to Liberia to put a stop to the mass killings and bring the fighting hetween the various factions to an end.”

    1992-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3138 (1992) · source

  9. “There is even a bridge spanning one of the boundary rivers and linking the two countries. People of the sare ethnic backgrounds reside on either side of the international boundary, while in many parts of Sierra Leone large concentrations of Liberians have settled over the years. It was against this background th\t when the ongoing civil war broke out in Liberia and started to devastate that country, the thousands of Liberians who fled their country received sanctuary in Sierra Leone. Sierra Leoneans opened their homes, their schools, hospitals and workplaces to thousands of Liberians who had fled their country. Villagers in my country who never had enough to spare from one harvest to the next shared what little they had with fleeing Liberians.”

    1992-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3138 (1992) · source

  10. “Because of the aimed invasion of my country by Taylor and ais rampeging hordes, our national economy is in ruins, as the Government has had to spend hard-earnee resources to defend our country from Charles Taylor, who for more than # year now has been occupying and ravaging some of the most productive areas of my country in terms of agriculture and diamond productic;, looting and smuggling those products to acquire arms to continue his armed aggression Members of tho Council may ask why and how this human tragedy has hit my country. They may ask why Sierra Leone today faces a mortal danger to its security because of the conflict in Liberia. The reasons are not far to seek: By dint of geography, Sierra Leone is a neighbour of Liberia, and the two countries share a long land and a maritime boundary.”

    1992-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3138 (1992) · source

  11. “Thousands have been injured, snd an estimated half a million have either become refugees, with little food or no shelter, or have found themselves displaced within their own country. , My fellow citizens who have not been killed by Charles Taylor and his hordss have had to wander the forest for days, ferreting for food while fleeing from the fugitive warlord Charles Taylor and his rebel fighters.”

    1992-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3138 (1992) · source

  12. “Mr. President, I thank you most profoundly for affordiag me this opportunity to appear before the Council on this important matter, the situation in Liberia, which affects ay country, Sierra Leone. In thanking you, I should like to join with those who have congratulated you on your election to guide the affairs of the Council this month. I have been advised that the affairs of the Council were competently and succeusfully conducted last month by the Permanent Representative of France. With the exception of Liberia itself, my country has been the most seriously affected victim of the ongoing conflict in Liberia. As I speak here today, thousands of the civilian population of my country have been killed, needlessly losing their lives.”

    1992-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3138 (1992) · source