President Charles Taylor has unleashed his security forces for a manhunt of university students attacked Wednesday for staging a solidarity march to support detained journalists.
Reports say many have been taken to unknown destinations and that their fate is yet uncertain.
Other unconfirmed reports say there were a number of deaths when the security men invaded the campus Wednesday. Unknown number of students were severely wounded. Several homes in Jallah Town, a poor neighbourhood near the university campus where many students live, were destroyed, broken into, and looted by marauding security men searching for students who had planned a solidarity rally for four detained journalists on espionage charge. Fear is mounting for the safety of the students because the Taylor regime is known for secret executions and issuing denials. In 1998, a number of ethnic Krahn soldiers were arrested, tortured and executed on the outskirts of the capital Monrovia, according to the US State Department.