On April 12, 1980, Samuel Doe led a military coup, killing President William R. Tolbert, Jr., in the Executive Mansion. Twenty-six of Tolberts supporters were also killed in the fighting. Shortly after the coup, government ministers were walked publicly around Monrovia in the nude and then summarily executed by a firing squad on the beach.
Exactly so and that had nothing at all to do with our CIA!
The reason Mugabe is being taken out is due to his preoccupation with his own power and his failure to live up to his obligations in upholding his side on the international war on terrorism. Here are a few examples of the rise of terrorism in Africa and the threats developing there:
https://www.state.gov/j/ct/rls/crt/2016/272229.htm
https://www.cfr.org/content/thinktank/Lyman_chapter_Terrorism.pdf
Think about what just happened to our troops in Niger and then it will make sense to you.
And in turn Samuel Doe was overthrown, and they first cut off his ears as a reminder that he was a poor listener. Africa is and always will be The Dark Continent .
” Shortly after the coup, government ministers were walked publicly around Monrovia in the nude and then summarily executed by a firing squad on the beach.”
Heard a lot worse than that, regarding Mr. Doe.