Liberian Civil War

ND – MPE: 0.08

The article “Liberia” on the website “Mass Atrocity Endings” cites estimates for the number of people directly killed in the First Liberian Civil War from 1989 to 1996, which range from 0.03 to 0.08 million. The article explains that commonly cited figures ranging from 0.2 to 0.3 million include injuries and deaths from disease and malnutrition. It isn’t clear how many of the excess deaths were the result of political crimes.

Most war victims were killed by Charles Taylor’s NPFL.

The US gave significant amounts of military aid to Samuel Doe’s regime.

Plausible estimates for the number of people killed by nondemocratic forces range from 0.03 to 0.09 million. I choose 0.08 as the most plausible estimate.