Samuel Kanyon Doe was a Liberian politician and military officer who served as the 21st President of Liberia from 1986 until his execution in 1990.
He ruled Liberia as Chairman of the People’s Redemption Council (PRC) from 1980 to 1986 and then as the first native president from 1986 to 1990.Doe’s brutal 1990 torture and murder were an early turning point in the two civil wars that killed around 250,000 people and ravaged Liberia’s economy.ѕєє тнє ν!∂єσ нєяє
He was taken to Johnson’s headquarters, where he was brutally tortured, beaten, and killed.
Eyewitness accounts and video footage (which circulated widely) show him being interrogated while injured, with parts of his body mutilated (including his ears being cut off). He died from his injuries.
Reports indicate that after his death, some of his assailants or rebels engaged in cannibalism, with parts of his body reportedly cooked and eaten.
This fits the description in the query of being tortured, killed, and eaten by assailants.
This event occurred amid the chaos of the Liberian civil wars, which involved multiple factions, Doe arrived at the headquarters of the Economic Community of West African States Monitoring Group (ECOMOG) in Monrovia, where he was ambushed by Prince Johnson’s faction of the Independent National Patriotic Front of Liberia (INPFL).
Doe’s death came after he abandoned his fortified presidential mansion, where he had been bunkered since rebels captured most of Monrovia . He paid an unexpected visit to the headquarters of the five-nation peacekeeping force that had been sent into Liberia by its West African neighbors.
