Operation Octopus – The Siege of Monrovia
In October 1992, rebel forces of Charles Taylor’s National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL) launched Operation Octopus — a coordinated assault on Monrovia aimed at toppling the Interim Government of National Unity. For months, the capital became a battlefield. Mortar fire, shelling, and close-quarter combat killed thousands of civilians and forced tens of thousands to […]