The AFL acted in a very brutal and scorched-earth fashion , which quickly alienated the local people . The rebel invasion soon pitted ethnic Krahn sympathetic to the Doe regime against those victimized by it , the Gio and the Mano . Thousands of civilians were massacred on both sides . Hundreds of thousands fled their homes . The Monrovia Church massacre was carried out by approximately 30 ethnic Krahn government soldiers , killing 600 civilians in St. Peter 's Lutheran Church , Monrovia , on 29 July 1990 , the worst single atrocity of the First Liberian Civil War
Monrovia Church massacre
Monrovia Church massacre
First Liberian Civil War