Barclay Training Center

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The Barclay Training Center is a military training center of the Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL), which is currently being rebuilt. It is located in the Capitol Hill district of the Liberian capital Monrovia and is named after the former President Edwin Barclay .

history

Second World War

The military camp was established during the Second World War and initially served as a US base to accommodate the pioneer units deployed in the Monrovia region (tasks: construction of the Freeport Monrovia , Monrovia airport , construction of bridges, depots, transmitters, field airfields and roads in the surrounding area the capital). The only slightly fortified military camp has served as basic military training for Liberian recruits since the 1950s .

Liberian Civil War

During the civil war , a refugee camp was temporarily housed in the Barclay Training Center . On May 13, 1996, the Barclay Training Center , previously a base of the government forces of President Charles Taylor , was surrounded by the units of the warlord Roosevelt Johnson ( ULIMO-J ). At that time, a medical team from MSF and other non-governmental organizations was working in the camp, where 15,000 to 20,000 people had already fled. The hygienic conditions were disastrous and an outbreak of epidemics was imminent. A platoon with 30 soldiers of the ECOMOG peacekeeping troops in three armored personnel carriers , sent to investigate, was captured by Johnson's fighters. The ULIMO faction accepts the ceasefire plan, which created a buffer zone around the beleaguered Barclay Training Center .

literature

  • Yukutiel Gershoni: The Search for a national symbol in a military regime: the case of Liberia . In: Constantine P. Danopoulos, Dhirendra Vajpeyi, Amir Bar'or (eds.): Civil-military relations, nation building, and national identity . ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, CA 2004, ISBN 978-0-275-97923-2 , pp. 199-214 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Barclay Training Center. Global Security Organization, 2011, accessed February 14, 2011 .

Coordinates: 6 ° 18 ′ 21 ″  N , 10 ° 48 ′ 12 ″  W.