Ebola Victim Survived Liberian War Now Fights for Life in U.S. Hospital

Thomas Eric Duncan survived the murderous civil war that left at least five percent of the Liberian population dead. The war terrorized Liberia from 1989 to 2003 causing more than 700,000 people to flee from the nation which only had close to two million residents. The First Liberian Civil War lasted from 1989 to 1997 and the Second Liberian Civil War began in 1999 and continued until October 2003.

The first war was an internal conflict which killed over 200,000 people. Samuel Doe led a coup d’état in efforts to overthrow the elected government in 1980 and in 1989 Charles Taylor, former government minister, moved into the country from to start an uprising aimed at conquering the Doe government. In July 1997, Taylor was elected president of Liberia however, the peace the country experienced did not last long; by 1999 the second war broke out. By the end of the Second Liberian Civil War more than 250,000 people had been killed and about one million displaced.

Among those survivors of the war was Duncan, the man who  … click HERE to continue reading