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Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf 		Back-to-back civil wars wracked Liberia for fourteen years. Peace was finally declared in 2003. In these documentaries produced for the BBC World Service, Audrey Brown reports on how Liberians struggle to put the past behind them.





  
FIRST HALF


Rape was a weapon in Liberia’s civil wars, and many women were victims of sexual violence. As part of the healing effort, Liberia hosted the U.N.’s first ever all-female peacekeeping force. The nation has a woman president. And Liberia’s female Chief of the National Police is charged with ensuring that 20% of all new police recruits are women.
SECOND HALF


Audrey Brown speaks with survivors of a 1990 attack at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in Monrovia, the site of one of the worst atrocities in Liberia’s civil wars. She also speaks with a former Liberian child soldier about his efforts to move past the war, and with Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf about the path to a peaceful future.
     
   
     



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