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I see that a precedent is now (one may say from the
past also) being set in Liberia that if you don't
agree with an electoral outcome, you claim fraud and
foment unrest until you get what you wish.  This will
definitely come to bite us in the behind -- again.
Mark my words!

- Wilmot


--- "Garwo, Sam W" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Liberia bans street protests over poll fraud probe
> 15 Nov 2005 19:11:52 GMT
>
> Source: Reuters
>
> MONROVIA, Nov 15 (Reuters) - Liberia's government on
> Tuesday banned
> street protests to prevent unrest while electoral
> authorities probed a
> charge of fraud made by one of the contenders of a
> presidential run-off.
>
>
> "Government hereby bans all street demonstrations
> that are not
> authorised by the ministry of justice," Gyude
> Bryant, head of the
> interim government formed in 2003 after Liberia's
> civil war, said in an
> address to the nation.
>
> Supporters of soccer star George Weah have staged
> several street
> protests after official voting returns showed Weah
> had been beaten in
> the run-off by former Finance Minister Ellen
> Johnson-Sirleaf.
>
> Weah has complained the vote was rigged and
> electoral authorities have
> promised an investigation.
>
> Weah supporters, many of them fanatical young fans
> of the former AC
> Milan striker, clashed on Friday with United Nations
> peacekeepers, who
> dispersed them with tear gas and batons.
>
> Hundreds of pro-Weah protesters also marched to the
> U.S. embassy in
> Monrovia on Monday to deliver a petition calling for
> an impartial probe
> into what they said were widespread irregularities
> in the Nov. 8 run-off
> poll.
>
> "Government will not under any circumstances accept
> a situation where
> some citizens decide to hold the rest of the country
> hostage because
> they do not agree with a particular issue or course
> of action," Bryant
> said.
>
> He called on Weah's Congress for Democratic Change
> (CDC) party to allow
> the National Elections Commission (NEC) to
> investigate the fraud
> complaint unhindered.
>
>
>
>

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