A young pro Taylor fighter, mortally wounded, does not immediately realize the seriousness of his condition because he is under the influence of drugs, Liberia, July 2003.[1920×1249]
A young pro Taylor fighter, mortally wounded, does not immediately realize the seriousness of his condition because he is under the influence of drugs, Liberia, July 2003.[1920×1249]
Ok first image right off the bat is a human head 😬 aannndd I’m done with internet for a bit
Jzadek on
this poor child. Charles Taylor really was a monster.
HoosierRed on
Label this NSFW…
An_Draoidh_Uaine on
Wow, you can see the hole in his neck just pouring all that blood out.
Why were they even fighting?
redoingredditagain on
Great, saw this without the NSFW label. Thanks for that…
Glittering-Potato-88 on
Yep saw without the nsfw label too
TripleSecretSquirrel on
OP, you can make it a little clearer if you hyphenate “pro” and “Taylor” as “pro-Taylor.”
Charles Taylor is a fucking monster who’s currently serving out the balance of his life in a British prison for his many atrocities and war crimes.
For us Americans, he’s notable too because Firestone — the tire company — financed and made his whole campaign of terror possible. Firestone had a huge rubber plantation in Liberia. Taylor reached out to them in the early 90s basically promising them lower taxes and more permissive regulations if they supported him. Firestone then funded Taylor’s army recruitment and arming. When they attacked Monrovia to kick off the civil war, they staged and launched from the Firestone plantation.
Firestone has conveniently lost a lot of the documents about this saga, but there’s plenty of evidence still available despite Firestone’s own document purges.
Holy shit. This is why we need real journalism. Some news desk sent this guy to document the atrocities. Horrible shit to see pictures of, can’t imagine willingly putting myself into a war to take pictures.
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montecristocount on
These Taylor Swift fans are getting increasingly violent.
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Fun fact: Liberia is one of the three countries that use the imperial system. The other two being Myanmar and the United States of America.
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[More photos](https://www.worldpressphoto.org/collection/photo-contest/2004/noel-patrick-quidu/6)
Ok first image right off the bat is a human head 😬 aannndd I’m done with internet for a bit
this poor child. Charles Taylor really was a monster.
Label this NSFW…
Wow, you can see the hole in his neck just pouring all that blood out.
Why were they even fighting?
Great, saw this without the NSFW label. Thanks for that…
Yep saw without the nsfw label too
OP, you can make it a little clearer if you hyphenate “pro” and “Taylor” as “pro-Taylor.”
Charles Taylor is a fucking monster who’s currently serving out the balance of his life in a British prison for his many atrocities and war crimes.
For us Americans, he’s notable too because Firestone — the tire company — financed and made his whole campaign of terror possible. Firestone had a huge rubber plantation in Liberia. Taylor reached out to them in the early 90s basically promising them lower taxes and more permissive regulations if they supported him. Firestone then funded Taylor’s army recruitment and arming. When they attacked Monrovia to kick off the civil war, they staged and launched from the Firestone plantation.
Firestone has conveniently lost a lot of the documents about this saga, but there’s plenty of evidence still available despite Firestone’s own document purges.
*ProPublica* as usual, [did an excellent job in documenting all of this.](https://www.propublica.org/article/firestone-and-the-warlord-intro)
Holy shit. This is why we need real journalism. Some news desk sent this guy to document the atrocities. Horrible shit to see pictures of, can’t imagine willingly putting myself into a war to take pictures.
r/lastimages
These Taylor Swift fans are getting increasingly violent.
Fun fact: Liberia is one of the three countries that use the imperial system. The other two being Myanmar and the United States of America.