No Liberian alphabet soup of violence 1989-2004

Is there any way that the protracted Liberian CW with associated atrocities could have not broken out in 1989 when Charles Ghankay Taylor & the NPFL invaded from Burkina Faso to oust Samuel Doe ? WI Taylor hadn't managed to successfully escape from US custody in 1984 at Somerset County jail in Mass, then was tried for embezzlement charges ? Would the bloodbath of Liberiae & Sierra Leone have been totally avoided had Taylor been totally removed from the picture ?
 
Given the state of Liberia and the surrounding states at the time, bloody violence and killing would likely still occur, just in or under the name of a different strong man or rebel or freedom group.
 
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