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* Second Liberian Civil War ( 1999 – 2003 ) – The conflict began in 1999 when a rebel group Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy ( LURD ), with support from the Government of Guinea, took over northern Liberia through a coup.
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( See also: First Liberian Civil War, Charles Taylor and Second Liberian Civil War )
The First and Second Liberian Civil War, which was one of Africa's bloodiest, claimed the lives of more than 200, 000 Liberians and further displaced a million others into refugee camps in neighboring countries.
During the 1990s, Charles Taylor's presidency and the First and Second Liberian Civil Wars underscored Liberian relations with the Western world, the People's Republic of China, and its neighboring countries in Western Africa.
Domestically, opposition to his regime grew, culminating in the outbreak of the Second Liberian Civil War ( 1999-2003 ).
This uprising signaled the beginning of the Second Liberian Civil War.
Johnson, however, was forced to flee to Nigeria to avoid capture by rebel forces supporting Taylor, and was not involved in the Second Liberian Civil War.
After the overthrow of Doe in 1990, the presidency was again vacated for seven years during the First Liberian Civil War and again for two years following the conclusion of the Second Liberian Civil War in 2003.
Following the 1997 general election, Charles Taylor held the presidency until his resignation on August 11, 2003 as part of a peace deal to end the Second Liberian Civil War.
The city was severely damaged in the First and Second Liberian Civil Wars, notably during the siege of Monrovia, with many buildings damaged and nearly all the infrastructure destroyed.
This movement helped bring an end to the Second Liberian Civil War in 2003 and the election of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in Liberia, the first African nation with a female president.
The threat has been used successfully in mass protests against the petroleum industry in Nigeria and by Leymah Gbowee during the Second Liberian Civil War.
Due to domestic and international pressure as a result of the Second Liberian Civil War, Taylor stepped down as president in August 2003.
The Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy ( LURD ) was a rebel group in Liberia that was active from 1999 until after the peace accords that ended the Second Liberian Civil War in 2003.
George W. Bush, cheering Liberians to rebound from Second Liberian Civil War that left their nation in ruins, said February 21, 2008 that the United States will keep lending a hand to make Liberia a symbol of liberty for Africa and the world.
Due to conflicts involving the countries the objectives of the Union could not be achieved ( see Sierra Leone Civil War, First Liberian Civil War, Second Liberian Civil War ).
* Leymah Gbowee, MA ' 07 ( in conflict transformation )-A co-honoree for the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize for leading the women's peace movement that brought an end to 14 years of warfare in Liberia in 2003, most recently the Second Liberian Civil War.
During the Second Liberian Civil War, it was the headquarters of the Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy rebel group.
The peace did not last long, and in 1999 the Second Liberian Civil War broke out.
LURD began fighting in Lofa County with the aim of destabilizing the government and gaining control of the local diamond fields, leading to the Second Liberian Civil War.
The Second Liberian Civil War began in 1999 and ended in October 2003, when UN and US military intervened to stop the rebel siege on Monrovia and exiled Charles Taylor to Nigeria until he was arrested in 2006 and taken to The Hague for his trial.
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Philosophically, European agrarianism reflects the ideas of John Locke, who declared in his Second Treatise of Civil Government ( 1690 ) that those who work the land are its rightful owners.
* 1958 – Chinese Civil War: The Second Taiwan Strait crisis begins with the People's Liberation Army's bombardment of Quemoy.
* 1862 – American Civil War: Second Battle of Bull Run, also known as the Battle of Second Manassas.
Armoured trains saw use during the 19th century in the American Civil War ( 1861 – 1865 ), the Franco-Prussian War ( 1870 – 1871 ), the First and Second Boer Wars ( 1880 – 81 and 1899 – 1902 ), the First ( 1914 – 1918 ) and Second World Wars ( 1939 – 1945 ) and the First Indochina War ( 1946 – 1954 ).
During the Second Sudanese Civil War ( 1983 – 2005 ), there was a massive uncontrolled crossing of the Sudan-C. A. R.
The Republican Forces of Côte d ' Ivoire (; " FRCI ") is the current name of the armed forces of Côte d ' Ivoire ( Ivory Coast ) and serve the Forces Nouvelles de Côte d ' Ivoire ( FNCI ), the political coalition that triumphed in the Second Ivorian Civil War.
This rate is a small fraction of the millions killed in the Second Sudanese Civil War and Cambodian Civil War, for example, but excludes several highly publicized conflicts, such as The Troubles of Northern Ireland and the struggle of the African National Congress in Apartheid-era South Africa.
This provoked the Second Civil War ( 1648 – 49 ) and a second defeat for Charles, who was subsequently captured, tried, convicted, and executed for high treason.
Efforts to demarcate the porous boundary with Sudan were delayed by the Second Sudanese Civil War.
Mao Zedong summarized basic guerrilla tactics at the beginning of the Chinese " Second Revolutionary Civil War " as: " The enemy advances, we retreat ; the enemy camps, we harass ; the enemy tires, we attack ; the enemy retreats, we pursue.
The tactics of guerrilla warfare were used successfully in the 20th century by — among others — the Soviet partisans and the Polish Home Army and the OSS in Burma in World War II ; Mao Zedong and the People's Liberation Army in the Second Sino-Japanese War and Chinese Civil War.
He escaped, and the Second English Civil War began, although it was a short conflict, with the New Model Army quickly securing the country.
The International Brigades () were military units made up of volunteers from different countries, who traveled to Spain to defend the Second Spanish Republic in the Spanish Civil War between 1936 and 1939.
* 1937 – Spanish Civil War: Nationalists and Republican both withdraw after suffering heavy losses, ending the Second Battle of the Corunna Road.
* 1863 – American Civil War: Second Battle of Winchester – a Union garrison is defeated by the Army of Northern Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley town of Winchester, Virginia.
* 1863 – Second Assault on the Confederate works at the Siege of Port Hudson during the American Civil War.
* 1648 – The Roundheads defeat the Cavaliers at the Battle of Maidstone in the Second English Civil War.
* 1864 – American Civil War: The Second Battle of Petersburg begins.
* 1863 – American Civil War: Second Battle of Springfield
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The great increase in the amount of archaeological activity, and therefore information, in the years immediately preceeding and following the Second World War has brought to light data which has changed the complection of the Saxon Shore dispute.
The discovery during the Second World War that guar gum was similar to imported locust gum increased its cultivation in western Asia and initiated it in the United States.
A little parable illustrative of this truth is afforded by an incident related by Professor Bela Vasady at the end of the Second World War.
During the Second Punic War in 212 BCE, the Ludi Apollinares (" Apollonian Games ") were instituted in his honor, on the instructions of a prophecy attributed to one Marcius.
In 1775, with events outpacing communications, the Second Continental Congress began acting as the provisional government to run the American Revolutionary War and gain the colonies their collective independence.
Christie occasionally inserted stereotyped descriptions of characters into her work, particularly before the end of the Second World War ( when such attitudes were more commonly expressed publicly ), and particularly in regard to Italians, Jews, and non-Europeans.
On the batting-friendly wickets that prevailed in the late 1930s, most Tests up to the Second World War still gave results.
Australia recovered the Ashes in 1934 and held them until 1953, although no international cricket was possible during the Second World War.
* 216 BC – Second Punic War: Battle of Cannae – The Carthaginian army led by Hannibal defeats a numerically superior Roman army under command of consuls Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro.
Since the Second World War, both theoretical and experimental fields have advanced at a rapid pace.
* 1645 – Thirty Years ' War: the Second Battle of Nördlingen sees French forces defeating those of the Holy Roman Empire.
* 1860 – The Second Maori War begins in New Zealand.
His paternal great-grandfather was a military tribune in Sicily during the Second Punic War.
* 1842 – American Indian Wars: Second Seminole War ends, with the Seminoles forced from Florida to Oklahoma.
* 1937 – Chinese Air Force Day: The beginning of air-to-air combat of the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II in general, when 6 Imperial Japanese Mitsubishi G3M bombers are shot down by the Nationalist Chinese Air Force while raiding Chinese air bases.
* 1900 – The Battle of Elands River during the Second Boer War ends after a 13-day siege is lifted by the British.
* 1666 – Second Anglo-Dutch War: Rear Admiral Robert Holmes leads a raid on the Dutch island of Terschelling, destroying 150 merchant ships, an act later known as " Holmes's Bonfire ".
* 1918 – World War I: The Second Battle of the Somme begins.
He took part in the subsequent campaign, but when the Peace of Passau was signed in August 1552 he separated himself from his allies and began a crusade of plunder in Franconia, which led to the Second Margrave War.
Following the Second World War, far-reaching social, economic and political changes profoundly affected a number of areas where Ismāʿīlīs resided.
* 1994 – Eugene Bullard, the only black pilot in World War I, is posthumously commissioned as Second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force.
* 1952 – The Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty ( Treaty of Taipei ) is signed in Taipei, Taiwan between Japan and the Republic of China to officially end the Second Sino-Japanese War.
* 1915 – The use of poison gas in World War I escalates when chlorine gas is released as a chemical weapon in the Second Battle of Ypres.
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