UN General Assembly
1992

people of Sierra Leone opened their homes and schools to them and offered them sanctuary. In order to end the killings and consequent suffering which they had to endure, and in the absence of any semblance of government in that country, the States of the sub-region, including Sierra Leone, with great reluctance and purely on humanitarian grounds, decided to send a peace-keeping force the Economic Community Monitoring Group (ECOMOG) to Liberia to stop the carnage and bring the fighting among the various factions to an end. It was because Sierra Leone provided a base for the ECOMOG peace-keeping force in Liberia that Mr. Charles Taylor and his band of NPFL rebels launched a premeditated and unwarranted invasion against our country. This senseless act of revenge was also motivated by the fact that Taylor had been denied the use of our territory to infiltrate arms and ammunition to prolong the conflict in Liberia. Thus, because we allowed our country to be used to bring peace to Liberia, we now have a war imposed on us.