To oust a dictator as terrible as Liberia's Charles Taylor, some warlords committed even more heinous crimes. Taylor is now serving a 50-year sentence in the UK after being convicted of 11 war crimes in the Hague in 2013.

Joshua Milton Blahyi went by a different name when he controlled the streets of Liberia's capital of Monrovia during its 14-year civil war. Going into urban combat wearing nothing but sneakers and a crazed look, he earned the title "General Butt Naked."

Blahyi as "General Butt Naked" in the documentary "The Redemption of General Butt Naked."

Warlords in the streets of Liberia from 1989-2003 were given names based in popular culture. It spawned such nicknames as "General Bin Laden" and "General Rambo."

While "General Butt Naked" may sound laughable as a nom de guerre, the warlord's methods were anything but funny. Of the 250,000-some Liberians killed in the conflict, Blahyi estimates he is responsible for at least 20,000.

The crimes he freely admits to don't stop there. He recruited children to act as his street enforcers, teaching them that killings and mutilations were all part of a game. And so they would also fight naked in the streets of Monrovia. Blahyi himself was a teenager when the conflict broke out.

Anecdotal evidence of the atrocities committed by "General Butt Naked" is numerous and graphic.

When Taylor was finally ousted in 2003, the man once known as "General Butt Naked" began a new life as a pastor. These days, when he isn't preaching, he visits the families of his victims and begs for forgiveness — complete forgiveness. He doesn't want lip service; he wants the biblical forgiveness that comes from the victim's heart.

Blahyi preaching from "The Redemption of General Butt Naked" Documentary.

Those victims don't want any part of it. Only 19 of the 76 families he has visited heard him out. The remainder goes about as well as one might expect.

Blahyi built a mansion where he houses former child soldiers. It's a place where he says he teaches them skills like farming and bricklaying. According to German newspaper Der Spiegel, he also feeds them.

At least one former soldier will attest to the work of Blahyi's NGO, "Journeys Against Violence." Luke Barren told Reuters that he earned his job as a mason because of Blahyi's effort. Other say Blahyi's whole enterprise is a farce combined with a cash grab.

The former warlord walks free where Taylor is imprisoned because of jurisdictional rules in The Hague. The court can only prosecute war crimes committed after its founding in 2002. There was never a special tribunal for prosecuting war crimes in Liberia, as there was from Rwanda, Cambodia, and the former Yugoslavia.