Film and Video: Vice Magazine’s “The Vice Guide To Liberia”

Blurb from YAMS:

My mother and I watched this and she cried. We are Liberians. We look forward to parts 2-8. Thank you, Vice. We love and admire you.

In The Vice Guide to Liberia, VBS.TV travels to the capital city Monrovia to meet three men who participated in the 14 years of civil war that ravaged the West African country. Former warlords General Rambo, General Bin Laden and General Butt Naked give us guided tours of some of the most dangerous, impoverished spots including jails, brothels and heroin dens. The film is out later this year, but you can watch the trailer here and read on for an interview with the film’s producer Andy Capper about making friends with former mass-murderers.

Despite the UN’s intervention in the country, the majority of Liberia’s young people live in desperate poverty. Surrounded by filth, drug addiction and teenage prostitution, the ex-child soldiers who were forced into war struggle to fend for themselves. As the former President Charles Taylor fights accusations of mass war crimes in The Hague, the people strive for positive change. America’s one and only foray into African colonialism is keeping a very uneasy peace indeed. I spoke to the film’s producer, Vice editor Andy Capper, about it.

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