vice guide to liberia

Dualified · Nov 14, 2011

please, watch this. it'll blow your mind. and yes, it is real...astonishingly.

Welcome to The Vice Guide to Liberia. VBS travels to West Africa to rummage through the messy remains of a country ravaged by 14 years of civil war. Despite the United Nation’s eventual intervention, most of Liberia’s young people continue to live in abject poverty, surrounded by filth, drug addiction, and teenage prostitution. The former child soldiers who were forced into war have been left to fend for themselves, the murderous warlords who once led them in cannibalistic rampages have taken up as so-called community leaders, and new militias are lying in wait for the opportunity to reclaim their country from a government they rightly mistrust. America’s one and only foray into African colonialism is keeping a very uneasy peace indeed. In Part 1, Vice’s own Shane Smith provides a brief history lesson and some essential context for understanding what caused Liberia’s civil war and how things got so bad. Liberia was originally planned and founded as a homeland for former slaves back in 1821. But fast forward a bunch of years and a military coup and you find the First Liberian Civil War in 1989: yet another third-world regime change in which the US-backed opposition, led by Charles Taylor, overthrows a government unfriendly to US interests. Once in power, Taylor’s corrupt, dysfunctional government quickly finds itself under attack by local warlords, leading to the Second Liberian Civil War ten years later. From there things go from bad to total shit.
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notonTV · Nov 14, 2011

3 minutes into part 1 and it's already hard to watch.

likealoyal · Nov 15, 2011

"even the commissioner comes squats down and shit with the people" haha that just cracked me up

s7exiled · Nov 15, 2011

Saw it a long time ago, great documentary. They have a ton of interesting clips on vice.tv, the pharmacopeia series is good.

scarface420 · Nov 15, 2011

i loved the Vice Guide to North Korea, ive watched it a few times and its still good every time

greenmnster_ · Nov 15, 2011

I liked the Liberia one

My favorite would have to be the Vice guide to Pakistan's gun markets/ and the Bulgarian dirty bombs

Pakistans gun market blew my mind, you can buy cheap 9mm there for like 25 bucks if I remember correctly.

Bulgarian dirty bombs scared the shit out of me because this journalist guy openly and easily bought a warhead on the black market, then wrote an article about it.

fucked up shit.

THERE ALL ON NETFLIX for the people who have it, I hightly recommend it

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