A rebel leader in Liberia’s civil wars, he was accused of numerous atrocities. The most notorious was the videotaped mutilation and killing of President Samuel Doe.
Tag: Deaths (Obituaries)
Rohit Bal, Exuberant Star of Indian Fashion, Dies at 63
Known as “the bad boy of fashion,” he was among a wave of designers who created modern Indian couture by updating traditional garments.
Breyten Breytenbach, Anti-Apartheid Writer in Exile, Dies at 85
He wrote poetry in Afrikaans and prose in English in his fight against South African racial oppression, an effort that landed him in jail for seven years.
Madeleine Riffaud, ‘the Girl Who Saved Paris,’ Dies at 100
Humiliated by a Nazi officer as a teenager, she joined the French Resistance. By the time she was 20, she had killed a German soldier, survived torture and captured a supply train.
John Prescott, Former UK Deputy Prime Minister, Dies at 86
He was a cruise ship waiter before rising in the trade union movement and becoming one of the country’s best-known Labour politicians under Tony Blair.
Celeste Caeiro, Whose Flowers Gave a Name to a Revolt, Dies at 91
In Portugal in 1974, she spontaneously gave red carnations to soldiers on their way to ending a dictatorship in what became known as the Carnation Revolution.
Vladimir Shklyarov, Star Russian Ballet Dancer, Dies at 39
The Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg, which announced the death, did not say how or where he died.
Princess Yuriko, Oldest Member of Japan’s Imperial Family, Dies at 101
Her death reduces Japan’s rapidly dwindling imperial family to 16 people, and only 4 men, as the country faces questions about the future under a male-only succession law.
Princess Yuriko, Oldest Member of Japan’s Imperial Family, Dies at 101
Her death reduces Japan’s rapidly dwindling imperial family to 16 people, and only 4 men, as the country faces questions about the future under a male-only succession law.
Murray Sinclair, 73, Who Reframed Indigenous Relations in Canada, Dies
He headed a commission that documented widespread abuse in Canada’s boarding schools for Indigenous children and sought to correct the history of Indigenous people.