{"id":1131,"date":"2003-08-05T08:14:13","date_gmt":"2003-08-05T12:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/08\/05\/cross-dressing-commandos-terrorize-lib"},"modified":"2003-08-05T08:14:13","modified_gmt":"2003-08-05T12:14:13","slug":"cross-dressing-commandos-terrorize-liberia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/08\/05\/cross-dressing-commandos-terrorize-liberia\/","title":{"rendered":"Cross-dressing Commandos Terrorize Liberia"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Few things exemplify the chaos of Liberia more than the
\n sight of doped-up, AK-47-wielding 15-year-olds roaming the streets decked
\n out in fright wigs and tattered wedding gowns. Indeed, some of the more
\n fully accessorized soldiers in Charles Taylor’s militia even tote dainty
\n purses and don feather boas. Why did this practice begin and what is
\n its logic?<\/p>\n

Cross-dressing combatants have been regulary seen in the
\n Liberian Civil at least since 1987, when currently beseiged president
\n Daniel Taylor laid siege to Monrovia with a
\n band of dolled-up marauders dressed in "wedding [dresses], wigs,
\n commencement gowns from high schools and several forms of ‘voodoo’ regalia.They
\n believed they could not be killed in battle." <\/p>\n

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Few things exemplify the chaos of Liberia more than the sight of doped-up, AK-47-wielding 15-year-olds roaming the streets decked out in fright wigs and tattered wedding gowns. Indeed, some of the more fully accessorized soldiers in Charles Taylor’s militia even … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}