He Was the Face of Liberia’s Endless War. Now He Wants to Govern.<br />"Just like I fought for you in the war, I will fight for you again," Mr. Duo told a community in his hometown, Little<br />Bassa, in a district in Grand Bassa County, southeast of Monrovia, when he began his campaign two months ago.<br />In recent weeks, Mr. Duo provided the community with 3,000 Liberian dollars — about $25 —<br />and had 12 boys circumcised, which she said was cause for optimism.<br />Henry Boima Fahnbulleh said that Politically, the vast majority of our people are<br />completely excluded, except when you have elections and people reach out to them,<br />The picture, taken by the photographer Chris Hondros — who died in Misurata, Libya, in 2011 — became one of the defining images of a conflict<br />that killed an estimated 250,000 people and displaced more than two million.<br />"It’s economic war — economic war, because high-class people<br />that are in position, they suppress the vast majority, and only they live better life." As Liberians voted for a new president on Tuesday, they also cast votes for new representatives.
