I am a war victim and survivor of torture. I am from the tiny West African State of Liberia. In early 2002, I escaped Liberia, sought and received political asylum in the United States and settled down in Staten Island, New York, home to more than ten thousand Liberians who fled the civil war in Liberia. In the spring of 2003, in partnership with psychologist Jack M. Saul, PhD, the Executive Director of the International Trauma Studies Program/REFUGE, Program for Survivors of Torture, and other progressive Liberians, we formed African Refuge, Inc, to address the many needs of war victims from Africa living on the North Shore of Staten Island many of whom are below the poverty line. In July 1990, during the height of the civil carnage in Liberia, I survived the infamous St. Peter’s Lutheran Church massacre that took the lives of 600 people. I witnessed the execution of my older brother by a Government death squad. I co-founded the Holistic Peace Movement to fulfill the TRC findings.