Photo source: Al Jazeera By Naveed Qazi | Editor, Globe Upfront In June 2019, a social movement began in Liberia born out of hapless conditions. It is alarming to a country which already suffered in a fourteen-year civil war that killed over two hundred fifty thousand people. The flurry of protests escalated in early January 2020 where thousands of protestors in Monrovia demanded the fall of George Weah’s government, a former soccer star. The protest leaders, members of a group called the Council of Patriots, had a long list of demands. One of them said they were demonstrating over issues of corruption, governance, the removal of a supreme court justice, and an increase in domestic violence and rape, as well as economic problems. Weah had initially tried to block their demonstrations, but then allowed them to be carried forward. When people outside the capitol building had started cooking evening meals, against police orders, the law enforcement began to forcefully clear the are...