Film Tells Story of Warlord-Turned-Evangelist Known as General Butt Naked

JUDY WOODRUFF: Next, a final installment in our series from the Economist Film Project. It's about Joshua Milton Blahyi, also known as General Butt Naked, one of Liberia's most feared warlords. He was responsible for killing and maiming thousands during Liberia's 14-year civil war.

JUDY WOODRUFF:

Next, a final installment in our series from the Economist Film Project.

It's about Joshua Milton Blahyi, also known as General Butt Naked, one of Liberia's most feared warlords. He was responsible for killing and maiming thousands during Liberia's 14-year civil war.

Then, suddenly, the general renounced his violent past and reinvented himself as a charismatic Christian evangelist.

His story is told in the new documentary titled, "The Redemption of General Butt Naked."

Filmmakers Eric Strauss and Daniele Anastasion spent five years with Blahyi, tracking his often troubling path as he sought forgiveness from his victims.

Here's an excerpt.

JOSHUA MILTON BLAHYI, "General Butt Naked": It's only Christianity that can help this nation, because Christianity, it is the only belief, the only faith that tell you to love your enemies, that tell you to accept and forgive the one who hurts you.

Am I talking to somebody?

All of us you see sitting here were notorious rebels. The only thing that is able to disarm them is love, the love that disarmed me.

Only God is able to turn lives around.

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