Name: リベリアの人喰い将軍 (The Cannibal Generals of Liberia)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T04:44:43.000Z
Duration: 19 min 14 s
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SHANE SMITH: In this episode, we go to Liberia and hang out

MALE SPEAKER 1: I lift it up on the temple.

MALE SPEAKER 1: It's a Liberian general's heart.

SHANE SMITH: I was afraid probably the whole time I was

There's always this underlying hum of violence.

And the poverty there is so crippling that you're kind of

like, why wouldn't they steal our camera?

So is that why your nickname was General Butt Naked?

SHANE SMITH: A lot of people would drink or do

MALE SPEAKER 2: So what kind of war is this?

SHANE SMITH: We here at Vice have been fascinated by

It started as a back-to-Africa movement for freed slaves, and

in fact, the Constitution was written in Washington, and

Monrovia, the capital city of Liberia, is actually named

So the freed slaves go back to Africa and promptly enslave

the native Africans based on the plantation method they had

learned in the US, which lasts for about 140 years, until

Samuel K. Doe, the first native, African-born Liberian,

Because an American-educated, and some would say

American-backed, rebel leader named Charles Taylor and his

buddy Prince Johnson came from America and overthrew him.

NEWS REPORTER: Despite reports that the government wants

talks with the rebels, the violence goes on.

NEWS REPORTER: Rebel forces stormed into the center of the

They're now less than a mile from the executive mansion,

where President Samuel Doe has barricaded himself with about

SHANE SMITH: In fact, Prince Johnson, who got to Doe before

his buddy Charles, ended up torturing him, cutting him up,

SHANE SMITH: So Charles Taylor finally gets elected with a

campaign slogan that reads, He killed my ma, he killed my pa,

But he's so corrupt that soon after, there's a bunch of

warlords fighting for control over Liberia.

The country falls into civil war, and things go from bad to

SHANE SMITH: But this is like a civil war on steroids.

It's a post-apocalyptic Armageddon, with child

soldiers smoking heroin, cross-dressing cannibals,

NEWS REPORTER: They call it the sound of death.

MALE SPEAKER 4: Yeah, but it's the sound of music to us.

SHANE SMITH: Liberia's been in the news a lot lately because

Charles Taylor is on trial at The Hague for war crimes.

So we contacted a Canadian journalist who lives in

Liberia named Myles Estey, who's kind of a Kurtz-like

tall, skinny, skeleton guy who's had malaria more times

and he said he could get us access to all these

We got on a plane and we flew to Liberia.

[MUSIC - THE ALMIGHTY DEFENDERS, "ALL MY LOVING"]

SHANE SMITH: When you first get to Monrovia, the first

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