The Reformed Cannibal
بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ General Butt Naked is a former commander of forces under the wider control of Liberian warlord Roosevelt Johnson. His real name is Joshua Milton Blahyi. He was known for his violence and atrocities during the First Liberian Civil War in the early 1990s. Blahyi is a member of the Sarpo tribe in Liberia, and claims to have been initiated as a tribal priest at age 11. He said he participated in his first human sacrifice then, part of a three-day Krahn ritual. Blahyi said that he had a vision in which he was told by Satan that he would become a great warrior, and to continue to practice human sacrifice and cannibalism to increase his power. He was later appointed a high priest, and the spiritual advisor to Liberian President Samuel Doe. The Krahn system of beliefs is a syncretic faith of Christianity, and various African remnant religions and spiritual beliefs. Blahyi’s personal idol was...