title: Emmanuel Gbalazeh
People's Redemption Council
Liberia Broadcasting System
J. J. Dossen
Samuel Doe
Ruth Perry
Joseph Korto
Nicholas Podier
Thomas Weh Syen
Legislative Council of Trinidad and Tobago
sentences: Emmanuel N. Gbalazeh (12 August 1934 - 2 April 2009) served as the 16th Chief Justice of Liberia from 1988 until the collapse of the Liberian government in September 1990.
 He had previously served as the Chief Justice of the People's Supreme Court under the People's Redemption Council from 1980 to 1986.
The People's Redemption Council was a military regime that governed Liberia during the early 1980s.
 It was established after the military coup of April 12, 1980, in which Samuel Doe, who served as chairman of the Council, seized power.
 Apart from Doe, the Council consisted of 17 soldiers.
The Liberia Broadcasting System (LBS) is a state-owned radio network in Liberia.
 Founded as a Corporation in 1960, the network was owned and operated by Rediffusion, London until 1968, when management passed to the Government of Liberia.
 The network began broadcasting television as the Liberia Broadcasting Corporation in 1964.
 Following the 1980 coup d’état, the newly formed People's Redemption Council gave the network its current name.
 As a result of the First Liberian Civil War, the company ceased broadcasting in 1990, and the network's premises were heavily damaged by war and looters over the next seven years.
James Jenkins Dossen (c.1866 – August 17, 1924)) was a Liberian politician and jurist, serving as the Vice President of Liberia from 1906 to 1912 under President Arthur Barclay.
 He was elected president of the Liberia College in 1913, and associate judge of the Supreme Court of Liberia for 10 years, before holding the position of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Liberia for 13 years.
 The J.J. Dossen Memorial Hospital in Harper, Maryland County, the only hospital in south-eastern Liberia, is named after him.
Samuel Kanyon Doe (May 6, 1951 – September 9, 1990) was a Liberian politician who served as the leader of Liberia from 1980 to 1990.
 Then Master Sergeant Doe served as chairman of the People's Redemption Council and "de facto" head of state after staging a violent coup d'etat in 1980; he killed President William R. Tolbert, Jr., and executed many of his True Whig Party supporters.
Ruth Sando Fahnbulleh Perry (July 16, 1939 – January 8, 2017) was a Liberian politician.
 She served as the interim Chairwoman of the Council of State of Liberia from 3 September 1996 until 2 August 1997, following the First Liberian Civil War.
 After eleven international peace attempts between 1990 and 1995 to end the civil war in Liberia, the attempts appeared to succeed.
 The interim Council of State consisted of a civilian chair, as well as members of warring factions: Charles Taylor, United Liberation Movement of Liberia for Democracy-K leader Alhaji Kromah, Liberia Peace Council leader George Boley, and two other civilians.
Joseph Korto is a Liberian politician and member of the Liberia Equal Rights Party (LERP).
 Joseph Korto was born in Barpa, Nimba County, Liberia.
 He was Minister of Education in Liberia from 2006-2010 and was replaced by E. Othello Gongar, formal Minister of Education during the regime of late president Samuel Kanyon Doe.
 He is also the Executive Director of the Liberian Development Foundation.
J. Nicholas Podier (died 1 July 1988) was a Liberian soldier and government official in the 1980s.
 He was one of the members of the group of soldiers that overthrew the country's government on 12 April 1980.
 When the soldiers formed themselves into the People's Redemption Council in order to govern the country, he became the co-chairman of the council and thus the country's Vice Head of State.
 In the aftermath of the government's overthrow, he was proclaimed a general, although his precise title is unclear; some sources called him a brigadier general and others a major general.
 He died violently in the wake of what former PRC chairman and later President Samuel K. Doe called an attempted coup d'état.
 Doe's government announced that Podier had died in a gun battle on one of the country's borders, although other sources questioned Doe's claims and suggested that he had been tortured to death in one of Doe's many attempts to consolidate his power.
Thomas Weh Syen (died August 1981) was a Liberian soldier and politician.
 He was a leading member of the group of enlisted men that overthrow the country's government in an April 1980 military coup d'état, and accordingly he became one of the leaders of the new military junta, the People's Redemption Council.
 In the wake of the coup d'état, he took the title of major general in the Armed Forces of Liberia and became the co-chairman of the PRC; as a result, he was the immediate deputy of Commander-in-Chief Samuel Doe and the Vice Head of State.
 From the earliest days of the PRC, Doe and Syen clashed; testimony before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 2008 revealed that their disagreements began during the coup itself, when Weh Syen and Doe forcibly disagreed about the disposal of money that had been stolen from the home of the newly murdered President William R. Tolbert, Jr. While a member of the PRC, he was partly responsible for educational affairs, but his time on the Council was short-lived.
 After allegedly attempting to overthrow Doe in a second coup, five PRC members, including Weh Syen, were shot in August 1981 on Doe's orders.
 Weh Syen was tried in a court-martial at the Temple of Justice in Monrovia.
 He was replaced as Vice Head of State by PRC Speaker J. Nicholas Podier.
The Legislative Council of Trinidad and Tobago served as an advisory commission to the Governor in British-ruled Trinidad and Tobago, between 1925 and independence in 1961.
 The Legislative Council consisted of a mixture of appointed and elected members.
 Initially the Council consisted of 13 "unofficial" members (those who were not civil servants serving "ex officio" in the Council), seven elected and six appointed, to 31 members, 24of whom were elected.
 Over time the balance between elected members and appointed members changed.
 In 1956 the Council consisted of 24 elected and 7 appointed unofficial members.

Question: Question: Peoples redemption Council consisted of 17 soldiers and this Liberian politician who once served as the leader of Liberia. 

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 Emmanuel N. Gbalazeh (12 August 1934 - 2 April 2009) served as the 16th Chief Justice of Liberia from 1988 until the collapse of the Liberian government in September 1990.
 He had previously served as the Chief Justice of the People's Supreme Court under the People's Redemption Council from 1980 to 1986. 

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 The People's Redemption Council was a military regime that governed Liberia during the early 1980s.
 It was established after the military coup of April 12, 1980, in which Samuel Doe, who served as chairman of the Council, seized power.
 Apart from Doe, the Council consisted of 17 soldiers. 

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 The Liberia Broadcasting System (LBS) is a state-owned radio network in Liberia.
 Founded as a Corporation in 1960, the network was owned and operated by Rediffusion, London until 1968, when management passed to the Government of Liberia.
 The network began broadcasting television as the Liberia Broadcasting Corporation in 1964.
 Following the 1980 coup d’état, the newly formed People's Redemption Council gave the network its current name.
 As a result of the First Liberian Civil War, the company ceased broadcasting in 1990, and the network's premises were heavily damaged by war and looters over the next seven years. 

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 Samuel Kanyon Doe (May 6, 1951 – September 9, 1990) was a Liberian politician who served as the leader of Liberia from 1980 to 1990.
 Then Master Sergeant Doe served as chairman of the People's Redemption Council and "de facto" head of state after staging a violent coup d'etat in 1980; he killed President William R. Tolbert, Jr., and executed many of his True Whig Party supporters. 

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 Ruth Sando Fahnbulleh Perry (July 16, 1939 – January 8, 2017) was a Liberian politician.
 She served as the interim Chairwoman of the Council of State of Liberia from 3 September 1996 until 2 August 1997, following the First Liberian Civil War.
 After eleven international peace attempts between 1990 and 1995 to end the civil war in Liberia, the attempts appeared to succeed.
 The interim Council of State consisted of a civilian chair, as well as members of warring factions: Charles Taylor, United Liberation Movement of Liberia for Democracy-K leader Alhaji Kromah, Liberia Peace Council leader George Boley, and two other civilians. 

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 Joseph Korto is a Liberian politician and member of the Liberia Equal Rights Party (LERP).
 Joseph Korto was born in Barpa, Nimba County, Liberia.
 He was Minister of Education in Liberia from 2006-2010 and was replaced by E. Othello Gongar, formal Minister of Education during the regime of late president Samuel Kanyon Doe.
 He is also the Executive Director of the Liberian Development Foundation. 

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 J. Nicholas Podier (died 1 July 1988) was a Liberian soldier and government official in the 1980s.
 He was one of the members of the group of soldiers that overthrew the country's government on 12 April 1980.
 When the soldiers formed themselves into the People's Redemption Council in order to govern the country, he became the co-chairman of the council and thus the country's Vice Head of State.
 In the aftermath of the government's overthrow, he was proclaimed a general, although his precise title is unclear; some sources called him a brigadier general and others a major general.
 He died violently in the wake of what former PRC chairman and later President Samuel K. Doe called an attempted coup d'état.
 Doe's government announced that Podier had died in a gun battle on one of the country's borders, although other sources questioned Doe's claims and suggested that he had been tortured to death in one of Doe's many attempts to consolidate his power. 

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 Thomas Weh Syen (died August 1981) was a Liberian soldier and politician.
 He was a leading member of the group of enlisted men that overthrow the country's government in an April 1980 military coup d'état, and accordingly he became one of the leaders of the new military junta, the People's Redemption Council.
 In the wake of the coup d'état, he took the title of major general in the Armed Forces of Liberia and became the co-chairman of the PRC; as a result, he was the immediate deputy of Commander-in-Chief Samuel Doe and the Vice Head of State.
 From the earliest days of the PRC, Doe and Syen clashed; testimony before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 2008 revealed that their disagreements began during the coup itself, when Weh Syen and Doe forcibly disagreed about the disposal of money that had been stolen from the home of the newly murdered President William R. Tolbert, Jr. While a member of the PRC, he was partly responsible for educational affairs, but his time on the Council was short-lived.
 After allegedly attempting to overthrow Doe in a second coup, five PRC members, including Weh Syen, were shot in August 1981 on Doe's orders.
 Weh Syen was tried in a court-martial at the Temple of Justice in Monrovia.
 He was replaced as Vice Head of State by PRC Speaker J. Nicholas Podier. 

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Answer: Samuel Doe