Examples of LURD in a sentence
ICG interview with LURD minister, National Transitional Government of Liberia, Monrovia, November 2003.
Janneh was the transitional government’s justice minister and is a former leading member of the LURD rebel group.
Critics see Janneh as responsible, in part, for violence committed by LURD fighters against civilians during the Liberian war and view his nomination as counter to the goals and spirit of the TRC.
The signing of this agreement shall be followed immediately by the engagement of the GOL, LURD and MODEL with all other Liberian political parties and stakeholders in dialogue, to seek, within a period of thirty (30) days, a comprehensive peace agreement.
Some members, including former LURD stalwart and ex- transitional assembly head George Dweh, are said to oppose an Americo-Liberian as leader of Doe's old party.
Names and phone numbers of personnel that will be impairment coordinators shall be provided to the City and Santee Fire Department.
The enlistment of child soldiers became very popular with other rebel factions such as ULIMO, LPC, MODEL, LURD, as well as paramilitary units like the ATU and the SOD.
The greatest specific risk of armed conflict would come from the formation or re-formation of an armed group resembling the defunct National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL), LURD or MODEL.
Most mortars and other heavy weapons returned to Guinea (in the case of the LURD) and Côte d'Ivoire (in the case of MODEL) between November 2003 and February 2004, before UNMIL was fully deployed, especially in the border areas.57 Multiple sources cited thriving cross-border business between Liberia and Guinea in which, for example, three AK- 47s were valued at one motorcycle.
A LURD commander said, "we fought because of discrimination and tribalism".135 He described a former "Mandingo empire" within Lofa County that included Voinjama, Nikabuzu, and other mixed Loma-Mandingo towns.Many Liberians speak of a somewhat similar dynamic in Zorzor, Lofa County's second biggest town.