[00:00:00] >> Court. The next day I went to the executive mansion and conveyed a message to. My boss. The S.S. as director. Thomas. Wright. Who immediately arrange for me to meet door in his phone pro office. I gave him a message to do just as given by were sent. [00:00:36] To ask me. How how did he within look. I said. He looks OK to me but he wishes for your kind interventions. And court. Said. You are dismiss to leave now. Later that same day. The poster commander Connery boy some of this talk of the tears soldiers in S.S.S. in his office cannot voice said that it was a mandatory all struck it operatives must meet back in his office that night. [00:01:38] I was suspicious. And very fearful. That's something we had bear was about to take place in this docket. We were littered joining by a special squad from the evac the mansion. For the victimization guy attachment. Are eerie and I didn't I didn't know. Very surprisingly. Not a specific was being discussed. [00:02:15] And cannot boy ask his body guys if you can for was prepared. To boil all other. Their convoy to proceed to a night club on girlie street where we disembarked and followed him into the club. Once seated. Asked by tender to say after everyone drinks of choice. So the party becomes. [00:02:52] After some time. Abruptly requested for the bill. Paid and started to head out to the cars. The convoy was heading back to the post and by this time. I became very very suspicious of what was coming. Upon arriving in a talk at France. After a brief delay in his office con a boy or a US into the me in a friend's post talking. [00:03:34] Where this court. Leader name on whom I say I don't know most of the people of a few one or two that could remember from a second imagine I don't in the room or his mean but I might very well. Order his men into position. Colonel boy order the jail. [00:04:00] Name. To release form P R C Chairman make a general Thomas way send and his for coconspirators. It means immediate immediately begin a parent to were sent. And his coconspirator that they were about to face their fate because they could very easily as I was told remember the false release of the F.L. inmates. [00:04:42] When A.B. Tarbert and valid Mr Ware prematurely. Release on the guard of darkness about the same time and they were never return. Nor heard from animal. Suddenly. Wes and his poll detainees. Each. Broke into loud cries and hollering in English saying. Caught. My people. They come and talk kill also. [00:05:26] Dog is killing us all. On court. There. We're repeating their cries. And their various binocular. Continuously as the special squad was ordering them to shut up and line up Lana. I want to leave. The same that moment. When they get. I was shot and got it. The post. [00:06:07] The most home bearable moment came. When. The squad leader or his men to shoot. The condemned prisoners became to cry even louder what we need to be silent for ever. By the by riot of bullets. Went West sent his coconspirators Westside racially and ceremoniously gone down without being blindfolded thought any minister. [00:06:50] Some spiritual right. As to dear. Please excuse me. I was too dare. Haplessly. To authorities believe. That I had just. Witness. Them later. Of another in Miami. I can still. Picture the scene. But it is just a pain it is remembering. That. I would take. To the grave. [00:10:31] I've EVER. It would not you know. To watch some. Of kilometers. Without due process. I was living more heartbroken. When the P.R.C. government. Announced its seen day that Westin and his prisoners were killed as a day where escaping. Through the I think of the post talking. Not only. [00:11:14] To government by their fellow citizens. But. Every life to the Liberian people without any more. In one thing for. My wife. That is. To be to a scholarship. To. Study nursing at the. University. So my wife so my wife and one of our children were in the US and I stayed in that period. [00:12:07] Some time the same year why did the writer of the F.S.S. need to Nelson. Was with President Gore in his hometown of Tucson granted accounting. I was instructed to represent he. At the funeral. All my way back from the finner I started my assigned shift driver to pass by my friend. [00:12:43] The English. Place and get something to eat. As we drove. Into. Yeah. There was a strange man sitting on her porch. She walked up toward a car. For our car and said. James. I'm sorry the food is not ready yet. I said. Well I'll come back and return. [00:13:22] But just before we attempted to drive the way. It is said to me. All brings me to my friend he if a businessman from America. I said hi. Nice meeting you. In the present on the porch said hi. As we started to drive from the house. I heard a conversation or mind military walking talking describing the car I was in. [00:14:04] The entire area. Which I later found out was under surveillance. And heard someone say The subject is on the porch. I immediately tried to reach the joint security. Office. Without success. There after I contacted the director. And briefed me about it happening. He instructed me to report to the S S S office. [00:14:47] And me to Deputy Director Sam I did. Deputy Director. Was immediately joining by feel how ranking. Military officers. Who began to question me about my connection with my Johnson an ex U.S. Marine. It was during. This interview that I found out what was. Going on. If a resident. [00:15:31] Had. Been under constant surveillance says Edward Johnson and his coconspirator S.. And his alleged Burton thanks U.S. Marines. Left the hotel and took resonate he did. This I had no knowledge of. Door and I honestly told them that I did not know the men in question. I was arrested. [00:16:09] At twenty over. To the National Security Agency for questioning me about. My role in a conspiracy to stage a coup against the P.R.C. government. I was charge. With secretly supplying the conspirators. With us from the S.S. S. office. And I want to make clear that. In the S.S. office. [00:16:46] We don't carry high powered. Sophisticated weaponry we carry. A few. Like. This country you know the kind that we carry in a motorcade you don't carry. A lot of thing there I mean you see. Why at the end S.K. I later found out. That as officers Samir come. [00:17:25] And it was Who are you. And I will meet your friends. Have also been arrested for allegedly conniving with my johnson and the X. U.S. Marine took plot. Against dog. After extensive investigation for three months. Ahead in the N.S.A. interrogation room. By His grace. And I repeat by His grace. [00:18:07] We were each set free. But without any explanations. We were buy. From the mansion for several months before resuming Judas. I suspected. That I was constantly on a surveillance. Since my release from jail. From my previous experiences working at the post. And experiences of Philip the real goal we have falsely imprisoned and sadly slipped more either. [00:18:58] On a guy of God. It was by his grace. Than I. Was pay and survived. To tell some of your stories and to openly. Once and for all set the record straight that former P.R.C. court chairman major general time must weigh same and for. Other P.R.C. members where who somebody why that. [00:19:37] Within the confines of the post stockade and that the P.R.C. government. Lied. About forty nine thousand in a one day were killed why try to escape from prison. Are by members of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. And all those mis somebody here. I thank you. For your own divided attention. [00:20:15] And I look forward. To being able to offer. More questions and more in surround him I look forward to all for more information about the true reconciliation. Later when I speak on behalf of the Liberian organization up to Piedmont in particular. And. Julian of Liberian Association in America such a region in general. [00:20:51] If the commission the commissioners have any questions. I would be happy to answer. I thank you. Thank you very much Mr Witness. For I veered into the commission. Your direct question experiences. As Or at least not wanted to. They were saying their piece or. Two. Other events during the period of years here. [00:21:27] In Liberia.