Moses Blah

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Moses Zeh Blah (1947-2013) was a Liberian politician.

Following Taylor's resignation, he became Liberia's 23rd President in 2003.

He served as President for two months until October 14, 2003, when a UN-backed transitional government led by Gyude Bryant was sworn in.

Personal life

Blah was fluent in German, French, and Arabic from the beginning. He and his wife Nettie had many children and grandchildren.

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Career

Blah was born in Toweh Town, Liberia, a Gio-speaking hamlet in north-eastern Nimba County, close to the Ivory Coast. He joined Taylor out of a common hatred of President Samuel Doe, who had murdered Blah's wife and hundreds of others in an ethnic-related massacre. He trained with Taylor in a Libyan rebel camp and served with him as a general during Liberia's civil war in the 1990s. After being elected in 1997, Taylor retained the post of ambassador to Libya and Tunisia. Blah was named Vice President in July 2000 after the death of Enoch Dogolea, who was rumored to have been poisoned.

Blah was known as a quiet, unassuming man, riding his own jeep instead of using a motorcade and pilot, and wearing flowing African robes instead of the traditional olive green military uniform. The presence of bodyguards following him around annoyed him constantly.

Taylor had left Ghana for peace negotiations in June 2003, and although there he was indicted by the war crimes tribunal in Sierra Leone, he was not arrested. During his absence, Blah was urged by the US to depose Taylor during his absence, but Blah did not attempt. Blah was detained for ten days after Taylor's return, but he was later released and reinstated as Vice President after being reinstated.

Blah briefly succeeded Taylor as president when he resigned in August of this year. Liberian rebel groups chastised him for his close ties to Taylor; they argued that Taylor's activities would continue. Blah said, "Let bygones be bygones." We can use it if we have power." He has welcomed the rebels to seek in his own house.

Blah said he had been sent a subpoena to appear at Taylor's trial in The Hague on April 7, 2008. He pledged to testify and "speak the truth" and testified on May 14, 2008, focusing on child soldiers and Foday Sankoh's friendship. Blah was accused of complicity in the assassination of RUF commander Sam Bockarie by a witness account submitted by Liberia's Truth and Reconciliation Commission on February 1, 2009. Vice President Blah was involved in the assassination of Bockarie in Nimba County by a senior commander of exiled President Charles Taylor's defunct Anti-Terrorist Unit (ATU).

Blah died early on April 1, 2013 in Monrovia, two weeks and three days before his 66th birthday.

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