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The Mandingos Owe Lofa County No Apology By E. Sumo Jones 17 May 04 I sincerely
wish to congratulate Mr. (Daniel ) Solee ( However, I had a moral and a patriotic obligation to differ with Mr. Solee with reference to his call for us to forgive the Mandingo tribal people of Lofa County because, as far as I am concerned, and I believe numerous Lofa County citizens feel the same way, the Mandingo tribal people in general of Lofa County have not done anything wrong to us nor have they offended us other ethnic groups of the County to warrant our forgiving them. The peaceful and patriotic Mandingo Tribal people of the County are still peacefully co-existing with us in the County. To single out this ethnic group for forgiveness would certainly imply that we are bearing some grudge in our hearts against their tribal people as a whole in the County which is far from the truth.. We, the people of Lofa County, will be absolutely wrong to hold the majority of the Mandingo tribal people of the County for the wicked, unpatriotic and ethnic cleansing of a few who take themselves to be members of the great Mindingo tribal people of Lofa County yea Liberia, purporting to be representing the Mandingo citizens of Lofa County. There is only one guy who calls himself a Mandingo by tribe in the person of Alhaji G.V. Kromah and his handful of supporters who joined him, upon his indoctrination of them in ethnically and religiously murdering thousands of other Lofa County citizens not of their kind in his attempt to make Lofa County a predominately Mindingo and Muslim County at the exclusion of the other tribal and religious people of the County while serving as the leader of the infamous and defunct warring faction known as ULIMO-K. Even though I took him to task last year when he and I got into a writing battle on your popular website, he publicly announced that he had no intention of making any apology for the inhumane things he committed on the persons of our people, our Towns, our traditional culture and our christian churches because he feels that he only waged a war of liberation in Lofa County to drive out NPFL. Mr. Kromah and his gang of murderous people are not any chosen representatives of the great, patriotic and decent Mandingo tribal people of Lofa County safe to say, of Liberia. He and those who identify with him and his wicked deeds do not deserve any forgiveness until they make a public apology for their violation of the human rights of our people of the County The invasion of Lofa County by ULIMO-K and its activities there are absolutely different from what took place in Nimba County between the Mandingos there and the other ethnic groups in that, as we read in newspapers and heard on the radio during the NPFL arrival in Nimba County in 1990, the Mandingo tribal people of Nimba were allegedly attacked and some of their houses burnt down and then chased out of the County for reasons that I do not know. If that is true, Mr. Gborlozuo Scott Toweh, an elder of Nimba County residing currently in the United States is right in trying to arrange a special meeting between them for forgiveness and reconciliation. In the case of Lofa County, our people never took up arms against the Mandingo people safe to say, to try to drive them away from the County. I do not believe in holding a whole group of people responsible for the behavior of one or two of those of their ethnic group. I believe in holding the individuals who actually and premeditately committed the heinous acts responsible. I am aware of the general amnesty which waved all charges against members of the warring factions who committed autrocities during the civil wars. Those who fall under that umbrella but personally and intertionally took the precious and innocent lives of unarmed and noncombatant citizens will, in the not distant or distant future meet their ends just as they did to their helpless victims. Hon. E. Sumo Jones held many high positions in Liberia, including that of the Superintendent of Lofa County . _____________
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