Liberia's wartime ghosts return to haunt election With Liberia due to hold a run-off election on December 26, the country's wartime ghosts have returned to haunt the vote, as key wartime figures and their associates cement their grip on positions of power and prosecutions for Liberia's back-to-back civil wars in 1989-2003, that killed an estimated 250,000 people, slip further away. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES