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Liberia - Pray the Devil Back to Hell
November 10th, 2008
The Second Liberian Civil War from 1999 to 2003 was brutal and contain many attorcities; much blamed on the iron fist rule of the then president Charles Taylor. The fighting included the use of forced child soliders. A new film documents a little known protest that contributed to bringing a peace that has now lasted 5 years.
NPR interviewed Filmmaker Abigail Disney and Liberian activist Leymah Gbowee about “The Link Women in White” protest against Charles Taylor during the Liberian Civil war.
This is audio and a picture video that I put together of that interview:
Yahoo movies page for Pray the Devil Back to Hell
Pray The Devil’: Liberia’s Stern, Solid Sisterhood
Npr movie review
NPR.org, November 6, 2008
Few truisms have proved more durable than the one holding that women, far more than men, love peace.
From the plays of Aristophanes — whose Lysistrata urged her Athenian sisterhood to withhold sex in order to bring about the end of the Peloponnesian War — to the real-life activism of Iraq War challenger Cindy Sheehan, there’s ample evidence of wives, mothers and daughters using moral suasion to argue for an end to male-instigated conflicts.
And recent history has no more stirring example than the fiercely courageous Liberian women who banded together to help bring down dictator Charles Taylor in 2003 and put an end to a decade of civil strife that had claimed hundreds of thousands of lives.
In telling their story, Gini Reticker’s passionate documentary Pray the Devil Back to Hell uses testimony from women who joined forces, with parallel efforts in the Christian and Muslim communities, to fight back with moral rectitude as their sisters and daughters were being raped, their husbands murdered, their babies maimed. ..
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Film home page: www.praythedevilbacktohell.com/nonflash/index.htm
Special Event Screenings www.praythedevilbacktohell.com/nonflash/intheaters.htm
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