Darlington Porkpa in Monrovia in this Discovery series takes us to the coastline where 13 senior government officials were executed for alleged acts of corruption in 1980 by the military junta following a coup.

The 1980 Liberian coup d’état happened on April 12, 1980, when President William Tolbert was overthrown and murdered in a violent coup.

The coup was staged by an indigenous Liberian faction of the Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) under the command of Master Sergeant Samuel Doe.

Following a period of transition, Doe ruled Liberia throughout the 1980s until his murder in 1990 during the First Liberian Civil War.

Let’s find out more.