{"id":2781,"date":"2008-01-21T16:28:30","date_gmt":"2008-01-21T21:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=2779"},"modified":"2008-01-21T16:28:30","modified_gmt":"2008-01-21T21:28:30","slug":"way-to-come-clean-general-butt-naked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=2781","title":{"rendered":"Way to come clean General Butt Naked."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/capt5717ffbfd4cc417ea873f1a50b343c14liberia_general_butt_naked_lon107.jpg\" title=\"Joshua Milton Blahyi, a former Liberian factional fighter known as \u2018General Butt Naked\u2019.\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/capt5717ffbfd4cc417ea873f1a50b343c14liberia_general_butt_naked_lon107.jpg\" alt=\"Joshua Milton Blahyi, a former Liberian factional fighter known as \u2018General Butt Naked\u2019.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joshua_Blahyi\" title=\"Wikipedia:  Joshua Milton Blahyi.\">Joshua Milton Blahyi<\/a> otherwise known as General Butt Naked testified in front of Liberia&#8217;s Truth and Reconciliation Commission regarding his activities during <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/First_Liberian_Civil_War\" title=\"Wikipedia:  Liberian Civil War.\">Liberia&#8217;s Civil War<\/a>.\u00a0 Gen. Naked said he is responsible for 20,000 deaths and urged other former Warlords to come forward:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I could be electrocuted. I could be hanged. I could be given any other punishment,&#8221; the 37-year-old Blahyi said in a weekend interview following his truth commission appearance last week. &#8220;But I think forgiveness and reconciliation is the right way to go.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have been looking for an opportunity to tell the true story about my life \u2014 and every time I tell people my story, I feel relieved.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gen. Naked got his name by charging into battle wearing nothing but\u00a0 a pair of boots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joshua Milton Blahyi otherwise known as General Butt Naked testified in front of Liberia&#8217;s Truth and Reconciliation Commission regarding his activities during Liberia&#8217;s Civil War.\u00a0 Gen. Naked said he is responsible for 20,000 deaths and urged other former Warlords to come forward: &#8220;I could be electrocuted. I could be hanged. I could be given any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pazIS5-IR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}