General butt naked liberia

Robert Downey Jr. Sign in. Watch now. A drama based on the experiences of Agu, a child soldier fighting in the civil war of an unnamed African country.

After rebels ousted his foe, ex-president Charles Taylor, in and peace returned to Liberia, the general begged for forgiveness — and quickly found that the charismatic personality that made him a natural rebel commander was well suited to preaching. So while Taylor does time for war crimes, Joshua Milton Blahyi, 45, has remodeled himself as a popular street pastor — a quick, and often financially lucrative, way to gain respect in West Africa. His Journeys Against Violence NGO has, he says, trained about 1, former combatants and street kids in activities such as farming and bricklaying since , but has been hampered by a lack of funds. At his training camp in a suburb of the capital Monrovia, lush vegetation threatens to overrun half-built houses abandoned for want of funds. Blahyi says he is appealing to donors to support him and is asking for half a million dollars to complete the units and carry out farming programs.

Joshua Milton Blahyi born September 30, , often known by his nom de guerre General Butt Naked , is a former commander of forces under the wider control of Liberian warlord Roosevelt Johnson. Once described as "the most evil man in the world", Blahyi said in that he killed at least 20, people and carried out regular human sacrifice and cannibalism of children. Blahyi has stated that he was originally a tribal priest. Since the war he has converted to Christianity and became a preacher. Blahyi is a member of the Sarpo tribe in Liberia.

We need eight buildings for staff quarters. So that makes 56 units. Then we also need halls, where they will be doing their training, eight halls where they will be doing their different training. On Sunday mornings in the capital, Monrovia, a few dozen people gather in a tin-roofed church to hear the former warlord preach. Blahyi, who now has hundreds of supporters on social media, wants funding for a charity he said is training former child soldiers and drug addicts in farming and construction.