General Butt-Naked

"So, before leading my troops into battle, we would get drunk and drugged up, sacrifice a local teenager, drink their blood, then strip down to our shoes and go into battle wearing colourful wigs and carrying dainty purses we'd looted from civilians. We'd slaughter anyone we saw, chop their heads off and use them as soccer balls. We were nude, fearless, drunk and homicidal. We killed hundreds of people -- so many I lost count.

But in June last year God telephoned me and told me that I was not the hero I considered myself to be, so I stopped and became a preacher."

-Joshua Blahyi, aka "General Butt-Naked", former Liberian militant.