Editing History of Liberia (section)

===Charles Taylor and the NPFL (1980–1989)===
[[Charles Taylor (Liberia)|Charles Taylor]], born 1948 in Arthington, Liberia, is son of a [[Gola people|Gola]] mother and either an [[Americo-Liberian]] or an [[Afro-Trinidadian]] father.  Taylor was a student at [[Bentley University]] in [[Waltham, Massachusetts]], U.S.A., from 1972 to 1977, earning a degree in economics. After the 1980 ''coup d’état'' he served some time in Doe's government until he was fired in 1983 on accusation of embezzling government funds. He fled Liberia, was arrested in 1984 in Massachusetts on a Liberian warrant for extradition, and jailed in Massachusetts. He escaped from jail the following year and probably fled to [[Libya]]. In 1989, while in the Ivory Coast, Taylor assembled a group of rebels into the [[National Patriotic Front of Liberia]] (NPFL), mostly from the [[Gio Tribe|Gio]] and [[Mano people|Mano]] tribes.