Liberia's former warlord and senator Prince Johnson, one of the main actors in the country’s horrific civil wars, died at the age of 72. Johnson, who once videotaped himself drinking Budweiser as his men cut off the ears of a former president, was elected senator in 2006 and remained active in politics after the civil war ended.
FILE - In this photo taken Wednesday Feb. 17, 2010, Liberia n Senator Prince Johnson , gestures during an interview in Monrovia, Liberia . , the Liberia n former warlord and senator whose brutal tactics shocked the world, has died at the age of 72, authorities said Thursday.
He died on Thursday at a local hospital in Paynesville, a suburb of Monrovia, said Siafa Jallah, deputy director of press relations at the Liberian senate. Neither Johnson nor the other seven people that the committee listed as leaders of warring factions were ever tried in Liberia. But a handful were convicted overseas, including Charles Taylor, a former president, who is serving a 50-year-sentence in the United Kingdom.
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