1) You first seized our road equipment on our own soil in Lofa County. Our leaders called for peace and dialogue.
2) You again instructed your soldiers with arms to cross the Makona river into our territory. Our leaders still called for peace and dialogue.
3) Being emboldened by that, you told them to hoist your national flag on our soil which is a serious breach of our territorial integrity under Article 2(4) of the United Nations Charter. We actually had an option to respond under Article 51 of the UN Charter (Collective Self-Defense against breach of territorial integrity), but we did not respond. Our leaders still called for peace and dialogue.
4) You told your soldiers to open gunfire on our citizens who were unarmed and peaceful. You even shot one of them on our own territory. Our leaders still called for peace and dialogue.
5) While an emergency MRU meeting had already been scheduled, you stood on top of your presidential motor vehicle on an open street last evening to issue a salvo of threats and to incite your military into combat of “reclaiming every inch of your ancestor’s land” even though you have no legitimate claim to any land in Liberia. Our leaders still called for peace and dialogue.
6) While speaking last evening, you gave your soldiers a flag with a standing order to hoist it once more on a territory that does not belong to you. Our leaders still called for peace and dialogue.
7) You have deployed hundreds of soldiers along with heavy amor and artillery, including a helicopter, along our borders. Our leaders are still calling for peace and dialogue. In fact, they are now en route to sit with you for peace talks even though you are still continuing with your aggressive and hostile behavior towards Liberia 
and Sierra Leone 
.
Know this today, continuously pursuing the path of peace and dialogue is NOT weakness. Make no mistake to see it as that.
Before you, Guinea, were (1958), Liberia was (1847). In fact, it was Liberia that hugely and willingly assisted you to gain independence in 1958 as a sister country. So, why do you want to fight us? What really do you want from us? Ask freedom fighter Sekou Touré about President William V. S. Tubman and their multiple meetings held between 1957 and 1958 just to free Guinea 
from colonial rule. Must history be snubbed just to prove “strength”? The preference of our people in both Liberia and Guinea is PEACE and STABILITY. Respect that.
Today, your aggressive and hostile behavior towards your neighbors who once helped you, Liberia and Sierra Leone, neither shows that you are a “STRONGMAN” nor a ‘SUPERMAN”. Embrace peace through dialogue and diplomacy as a means of always finding solution(s) to geopolitical rivalry(ies).
There are too many problems in Guinea to solve, including increased economic hardship and mass youth unemployment. Deal with them and stop inciting regional tensions. We’ve passed this road before. We do not wish to go back there. We want peace through dialogue and diplomacy. But make no mistake that we’ll allow you to advance an inch into our territory.
If we allow you now to claim the land on our side of the Makona river, you will soon say Foya is for Guinea. Next, it will be Lofa is for Guinea. What really do you want from us? What really do you want from Liberia and Sierra Leone?
The September 18, 1907 Franco-Liberian Boundary Treaty which was revised in 1911 and 1926 and was inspired by ‘The Thalweg Doctrine’ under international law, is crystal clear on joint boundary or borderline (Makona River) between Liberia and Guinea.
Important Note: Zinta and Mousardou were part of Liberia before. But because of peace, we ceded those territories to you during this treaty period. What more do you want from us? Please read your history and The Law, Mr. Mamady Doumbouya. The plain texts, spirits, and intents of The Law are crystal clear.
We want peace. We want peace. We want dialogue. We want diplomacy.
Talks, not Tensions. Dialogues, not Destructions. Diplomacy, not Disunity. Brotherliness, not Bullying. Sisterliness, not Savagery. Conversations, not Confrontations. Amicability, not Aggression. Vision, not Violence. Respect The Rule of Law, Mr. Doumbouya.
Mother Liberia wants peace
, but no unprovoked encroachment on or aggression towards her would be tolerated to undermine national sovereignty and security.
About The Author: Martin K. N. Kollie is a Liberian activist in exile and a former student leader in Liberia.
