Forty-five years after being killed in a coup and his body thought to have been buried in a mass grave, former Liberian President William Tolbert has been given a symbolic reburial.
Thirteen members of the president’s cabinet were stripped, chained to stakes, and then put to death by firing squad on a beach near an army barracks in the capital, Monrovia, ten days after the president’s murder, after being tried in a kangaroo court.
President Joseph Boakai and other officials attended the state funerals for each of the 14 men, even though none of their bodies have been located.
