She is on a mission to lift her people from the dark political legacy of expresidents. Charles Taylor and Samuel Doe when fraud. corruption. human rights abuses. and ethnic conflict were rampant. From 1989 to 1996. a civil war in Liberia claimed the lives of more than 200.000 Liberians and displaced a million other people in refugee camps in neighboring countries. President Sirleaf herself endured torture as a military prisoner of Does rebel forces. During Taylor and Does administration over a 25 year period. the per capita income in Liberia dropped from $1000 to $120 according to the World Bank.