Photo by Pewee Flomoku   |   American Embassy in Monrovia, Liberia   |   July 2003Liberia, in the mi

Photo by Pewee Flomoku   |   American Embassy in Monrovia, Liberia   |   July 2003Liberia, in the middle of two consecutive decades of civil war where factions of warlords basically staged a reality show where whoever committed the most atrocities won the country. Finally, a woman named Leymah Roberta Gbowee started convincing other women – both Muslims and Christians – to stand up and demand an end to the war. From mosque to church they went, recruiting women who were as fed up as they were.These women proceeded to get right in the faces of the warlords, demanding an end to the violence. The same warlords who used drugged children as battlefield drones and mutilated the faces and limbs of anyone who stood in their way. These are people who used rape as military tactic.In 2003, this group of women protested, shouted and increased their numbers, demanding that the warring factions sit down at the peace table and hammer out a truce. And they did. They stopped the war just to shut the women up. Liberia held its first democratic elections two years later. Gbowee would go on to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011. Source: cracked.com -- source link

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