Maher: Black Rain in Bomi is a 2016 Liberian film based on the testimonies of survivors of a 2002 massacre in Bomi County.[1] [2] Directed by the video journalist Derick Snyder, it was shown at the Fighting Stigma Through Film festival in London in 2018.[3]
The Maher massacre, one of the last massacres of the Second Liberian Civil War, took place in Tubmanburg on July 18, 2002. According to a 2004 investigation by the Catholic Justice and Peace Commission (JPC), pro-government militiamen under the command of Benjamin Yeaten and Roland Duo killed about 150 people on a bridge over the Maher River, about 60 km from Monrovia.[4]
Snyder, a 2014 winner of the Mohamed Amin Africa Media Award for a documentary about Ebola, first heard about the Maher massacre in 2007. He self-funded Maher using money from the Mohamed Amin award.[1] The film received a 2017 Award of Recognition from Indie Fest.[5]