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[–] derram 1 point -1 points (+0|-1) ago 

https://archive.is/q1Lg | https://vgy.me/6Njmrp.png :

Liberia's cross-dressing soldiers.

'According to the soldiers themselves, cross-dressing is a military mind game, a tactic that instills fear in their rivals. ', "Indeed, some of the more fully accessorized soldiers in Charles Taylor's militia even tote dainty purses and don feather boas.", "The cross-dressing combatants blipped onto the Western press's radar screen right around the time the Liberian Civil War started on Christmas Eve in 1989."

'This belief is founded on a regional superstition which holds that soldiers can "confuse the enemy's bullets" by assuming two identities simultaneously. '

'"Liberia's fifteen minutes of infamy seemed to spring full-blown out of the most sensational Western images of Darkest Africa."'

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