Samuel Doe
Samuel Doe For 10 years the sadistic tyrant Samuel Doe rules Liberia with an utter contempt for humanity. His cruelty knows no limits. This is the story of how maniacal ambition turns a vicious young soldier into West Africa's most aggressively violent dictator and how his murderous quest to dominate Liberia came to a humiliating end. Samuel Doe (1951-1990) was a Liberian politician who served as the Liberian leader from the year 1980 to year 1990. He enlisted in the army at the age of 18 and was a member from the Krahn ethnic group, a large rural population. He rose through the ranks to become a master sergeant in 1979. Prior to the 1980 overthrow, locals had frequently held a minimal role in the society, which was commanded by the relatives of the Americo-Liberian Pioneers; made fundamentally out of free-born black American liberated slaves, the Pioneers were the settlers who had built up Liberia during the 1820s and drove the nation starting with independence in