Thousands of people gathered in northern Liberia on Saturday for the funeral of warlord-turned-politician Prince Johnson – a notorious face of the country's brutal civil wars, and who died without facing trial. A Liberian rights activist tells RFI it was "painful" to see Johnson commemorated as a hero.
Prince Yormie Johnson was a key figure in Liberia's two civil wars between 1989 and 2003, which claimed around 250,000 lives and resulted in massacres, mutilation, rape and the widespread use of child soldiers.
