Shakespeare on a Train. B. NAIR

      EPILOGUE: I left Liberia in June 1986 to take up a new posting in Mauritius. Samuel Doe’s reign of terror continued, but civil war broke out in 1989. On 9th September 1990, Samuel Doe paid a visit to the headquarters of the Economic Community of West Africa Monitoring Group (ECOMOG) at the Freeport of Monrovia for a reconciliation meeting arranged by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). There, he was captured by the army of a new rebel leader and warlord, Prince Johnson. Doe was taken to Prince Johnson’s camp, stripped naked, brutally tortured, dismembered and shot dead.