“How Rice Protest Contributed To The Assassination Of Liberia’s President William Tolbert and Execution Of His 13 Cabinet Officials”
“How Rice Protest Contributed To The Assassination Of Liberia’s President William Tolbert and Execution Of His 13 Cabinet Officials” On 12 April 1980, Liberia’s 20th president, William Richard Tolbert Jr., was overthrown and assassinated in a bloody military coup, following months of public anger sparked by his government’s proposal to increase the price of rice. […] The post “How Rice Protest Contributed To The Assassination Of Liberia’s President William Tolbert and Execution Of His 13 Cabinet Officials” first appeared on The Zambian Observer .