Why is it that pedophiles can just convert to religion and be forgiven? Back during the civil war in Libera General Joshua Milton Blahyi was a sadistic murderer and child killer. This is his bio
"Blahyi has said he led his troops naked except for shoes and a gun. He believed that his nakedness was a source of protection from bullets.[8] Blahyi now claims he would regularly sacrifice a victim before battle, saying, "Usually it was a small child, someone whose fresh blood would satisfy the devil."[1]
He explained to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer: "Sometimes I would enter under the water where children were playing. I would dive under the water, grab one, carry him under and break his neck. Sometimes I'd cause accidents. Sometimes I'd just slaughter them."[9] In January 2008 Blahyi confessed to taking part in human sacrifices which "included the killing of an innocent child and plucking out the heart, which was divided into pieces for us to eat."[10]
Blahyi claimed to a South African Star reporter that he "met Satan regularly and talked to him" and that from age of 11 to 25 he took part in monthly human sacrifices.[11] In his account of a typical battle Blahyi claimed, "So, before leading my troops into battle, we would get drunk and drugged up, sacrifice a local teenager, drink the blood, then strip down to our shoes and go into battle wearing colorful wigs and carrying imaginary purses we'd looted from civilians. We'd slaughter anyone we saw, chop their heads off and use them as soccer balls. We were nude, fearless, drunk yet strategic. We killed hundreds of people--so many I lost count."[12]
Blahyi also purported that during this period he had "magical powers that made him invisible" and a "special power" to capture a town singlehandedly, then call in his troops afterwards to "clean up".[13] Some of Blahyi's soldiers--often boys in their early teens and younger--would enter battle naked; others would wear women's clothes.[1] In June 2006 Blahyi published his autobiography that included pictures of him fighting with a rifle, wearing nothing but sneakers.[14]
During the First Liberian Civil War he led a mercenary unit, many of whom were child soldiers, which was known as the Butt Naked Brigade.[3] They were funded by Roosevelt Johnson and fought alongside the ULIMO militia against militias led by Charles Taylor and Prince Yormie Johnson. ULIMO was loyal to Samuel Doe, who was captured and executed—personally—by Johnson. Taylor eventually took control of the country.
His "conversion to Christianity"
"Blahyi's rampage ended in 1996, when the civil war in Liberia was coming to a close. He states his conversion was bolstered by a church in Liberia where a Bishop Kun Kun is pastor. They claimed to have heard from God to fast 54 days for his deliverance. After the fast they claim God gave them spiritual powers to infiltrate his coven in the city of Liberia and preach to him. Shortly after, he had a theophany in which Jesus Christ appeared to him as a blinding light, spoke to him as a son, and told him that he would die unless he repented his sins.[3]
In 1997 Blahyi traveled to the Buduburam refugee camp in Ghana. It was at the camp, he recounts, that he made confession for his sins at a church and "had his life saved".[15] When he goes out to preach now, he says he sometimes encounters relatives of his victims. "I feel very bad, so bad", he said, but he insists it was satanic powers that possessed him in the past and he cannot be held responsible.[9] He has since expressed willingness to be tried for war crimes at the Hague.[3]
Blahyi is now the President of the End Time Train Evangelistic Ministries Inc., with headquarters in Liberia. He is married to Pastor Mrs. Josie and has four children: Michaela, Joshua Milton Jr., Janice[4] Marva and Jackie MaryBeth. For a few years he was estranged from his family and hiding in Ghana, due to his fear of reprisals from his victims and/or their relatives.[3]
In 2004 Liberian-American director Gerald Barclay traveled to Buduburam to shoot a documentary which included interviews with Blahyi.[16] In January 2008 Blahyi returned to Liberia from Ghana and claimed before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Liberia that between approximately 1980 and 1996 he and his men were responsible for the deaths of more than 20,000 people.[17]
Although the TRC accepted that figure, Norris Tweah, the Information Minister of Liberia, has since disputed that Blahyi was responsible for that many deaths.[3] Blahyi was the subject of a 2010 documentary film: True Stories: The Redemption of General Butt Naked[18] by the Sundance Institute, produced and directed by Eric Strauss and Daniele Anastasion.
On October 2016 Blahyi appealed to donors to donate half a million dollars to his Journeys Against Violence NGO which trains child soldiers and drug addicts in farming and construction.[19]"
They use him as aa figure of inspiration and someone wise to look up to. A child murderer. Since he converted to Christianity. All the atrocities and randomly murdering children as sacrifices to Satan were forgiven and the man now is rich and lives a life of luxary and travels the world telling his "redemption" story. Under his and other clansa sick urban myth came that if you rape an infant your aids will get cured and the baby will get it instead. Not kidding. It's called "The Virgin Cleansing Myth" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_cleansing_myth
His documentary is called ""The Redemption of General Butt Naked"" He says he personally led the effort to rape and murder children across Africa and make an army of child soldiers and child prostitutes for the Militia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLySFPGG7hQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_XtoU3j55A
This monster was one of the people who kidnapped thousands of children and made his army kidnap thousands of children to be forced to fight to the death during the Liberia Civil War. Untold thousands of children's condemned to fight to the death during a civil war. Regular child sacrifices daily of any kid unlucky to be kidnapped by his clan.
So why is a child murdering rapist warlord who commited mass rape and genocide allowed to have redemption? Why do the media say his story is "inspirational" and he has turned good and all is redeemed? Why is a child murderer and rapist become famous from his "redemption?" A generation of kids died horrible deaths because of him and people like him.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Butt_Naked
Pictures of him during his Warlord days.
http://wearethemighty.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/General-Butt-Naked-preacher-Liberian-Civil-War-Joshua-Blahyi.jpg
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fHqSSeKXZE8/VNOg8mpMMEI/AAAAAAAAEBg/aFUL0LQhiqI/s1600/butt%2Bnaked2.jpg
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think- ago
How very convenient. He wasn't responsible, 'Satan' was.
Unfortunately, this horrible idea is rampant in South Africa too. Numbers of HIV infections there are high, and men claim they needed to rape the children because this would cure them.
Which means he still has access to children.....
gamepwn ago
The Civil War in their country is over, yet no one who personally led the charge and committed atrocities on thousands of children, sacrificing and torturing and raping children to death and forcing them to fight in wars should become an inspirational figure. He still has access and it's sick.
think- ago
I know about child soldiers, but I had no idea there was an army of children who were forced to fight naked, and that there was an army leader who was into satanic sacrifices, but then, the latter shouldn't be a surpise when you think of it.
Many people in Africa are into Voodoo and similar belief systems, and many still believe in witches, in fact there are still witch hunts, and 'witches' will get killed, so will albino children, and (graphic) their flash will be eaten and made to 'medicine'. Horrible.
(May I make a suggestion? This post is excellent, but maybe some people might be grateful if there was a 'NSFW' at the top - so they will know that some stomach turning stuff will follow. Thank you!)
Gumbatron ago
My understanding was that it was only General Butt Naked who actually fought naked. The children would usually wear dresses (probably stolen from the women they had killed).
gamepwn ago
No, many of them were naked :/ "Some of Blahyi's soldiers--often boys in their early teens and younger--would enter battle naked; others would wear women's clothes.[1] In June 2006 Blahyi published his autobiography that included pictures of him fighting with a rifle, wearing nothing but sneakers" During this warlords reign child rape and death and human sacrifice happened en masse daily.