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ABC:LHS #083-3   Julia Komai

...and her husband Reverend John Komai, son of a Krahn chief, fled their homeland of Liberia during the 1989 coup. John became a community leader for Liberian refugees in the U.S. Julia was a political activist who had been jailed in 1979 for her opposition to human rights abuses; she later served as Assistant Director of the African Unity Conference Center.