Joshua Milton Blahyi, or General Butt Naked, is a Liberian preacher who was a notorious warlord during the First Liberian Civil War. Raised in the Krahn community, he was initiated into priesthood at age 11. He later claimed to have helped Samuel K. Doe come to power in Liberia through his black magic. After Charles Taylor of the NPFL launched a rebellion against Doe and thus initiated a civil war, Blahyi joined the rival group ULIMO and started destroying villages, killing people, and sacrificing children and eating them, as the leader of the Naked Base Commandos. He was called General Butt Naked, as he fought in battles wearing nothing but his shoes. In 1996, he stopped fighting after a vision. Following the war, he became a Christian and re-started his life as an evangelical preacher. He also built a compound near Monrovia, bringing in the former child soldiers of the civil war and offering them vocational training.