Charles Taylor faces a tricky problem in accepting sanctuary in Nigeria, and that has to do with his armed followers and their fears about their own fate after peacekeepers arrive. Losers are not treated gently in African civil wars, and many of Taylors followers are heavily armed, not very well disciplined and getting more nervous by the day. Taylor wants peacekeepers more to protect his own people, and thus himself, than for any other reason. If Taylor were to slip off to exile in Nigeria without a fuss, the group that supported him, the "Amero-Liberians" (the descendents of freed slaves that founded Liberia 180 years ago), would still have to face the wrath of the various Liberian tribes (which have long felt abused and disdained by the "Amero-Liberians." ) Tribal animosities, as always, define war and peace in Africa.