badass Charles Taylor

Some of the stories out of Liberia of the Charles Taylor regime are remarkable. Here are some of his innovations

• public executions and amputations of civilians
• the display of decapitated heads at checkpoints
• the killing and public disembowelment of a civilian whose intestines were then stretched across the road to make a check point
• public rapes of women and girls
• people burned alive in their homes

The thoroughness and imagination is remarkable. I think they may have had Kurtz as a consultant.