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West Africa: Charles Taylor's Legacy in Sierra Leone and Liberia
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The recent conviction of Charles Taylor in The Hague for aiding and abetting war crimes in Sierra Leone has been a potent reminder of the role of natural resources in fuelling conflict in West Africa.
- War crimes court hands Liberia's Charles Taylor 50-year jail term (independent.ie)
Former Liberia leader Charles Taylor gets 50 years
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Former Liberian President Charles Taylor was sentenced to 50 years imprisonment Wednesday for arming and supporting murderous rebels in Sierra Leone in return for 'blood diamonds,' a landmark sentence ...
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- Charles Taylor gets 50 years for war crimes (api.bing.com)
Charles Taylor Sentenced – a Step Forward?
It’s all about the politics of power.” There are other aspects of the Taylor trial likely to give Africans pause: it took place in The Hague—not in Africa; Taylor was not prosecuted for crimes committed in Liberia, raising the specter of ...
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Charles Taylor sentenced to 50 years in prison for war crimes
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Judge at court in The Hague says ex-Liberia president's crimes were of the 'utmost gravity in scale and brutality'
Liberia's former president, Charles Taylor, has been sentenced to 50 years in jail for being "in a class of his own" when committing war crimes during the long-running civil war in neighbouring Sierra Leone.
Judges at a UN-backed tribunal in The Hague said his leadership role and exploitation of the conflict to extract so...
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- Mixed Reaction to Sentencing of Liberia's Charles Taylor (globalsecurity.org)
Charles Taylor’s Hague Sentence Sparks War-Crimes Debate In Liberia
The city barely paused, even as Liberia’s former president Charles Taylor sat thousands of miles away in a courtroom in the Hague. There he listened with closed eyes as Judge Richard Lussick, of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, sentenced ...
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Charles Taylor Sentenced to 50 Years By Netherlands Court
Charles Taylor was put on trial in the Hague Court. He was charged with war crimes against humanity for his role as the head-of-state in Liberia. He was found guilty on April 26, 2012., a photo by Pan-African News Wire File Photos on Flickr.Charles Taylor sentenced to 50 years in prison for war crimesJudge at court in The Hague says ex-Liberia president's crimes were of the 'utmost gravity in scale and brutality'Liberia's former president...
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Liberia's Charles Taylor jailed for 50 years
A UN-backed court jailed Liberia's Charles Taylor for 50 years for fuelling Sierra Leone's savage war, known for its mutilations, drugged child soldiers and sex slaves.The former Liberian president, 64, was convicted last month...
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Ex-Liberia President Charles Taylor gets 50 years
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The 64-year-old warlord-turned-president is the first former head of state convicted by an international war crimes court since World War II and judges said they had no precedent when deciding his sentence.
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- Ex-president Charles Taylor Jailed 50 Years (modernghana.com)
- Liberia: Taylor Begins Jail Sentence May 30 (allafrica.com)
Liberia's Charles Taylor jailed for 50 years over 'heinous and brutal crimes...
The Special Court for Sierra Leone found Taylor guilty last month on 11 charges of aiding and abetting the rebels who went on a bloody rampage during the decade-long war that ended in 2002 with more than 50,000 dead. Presiding Judge Richard ...
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War criminal Charles Taylor gets 50 years
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Former Liberian President Charles Taylor has been sentenced to 50 years jail for arming and supporting murderous rebels in Sierra Leone in return for "blood diamonds." Activists hope the landmark sentence will send a clear message to despots around the ...
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- Liberia: Charles Taylor Goes to Jail Wednesday (allafrica.com)
- Liberia despot gets 50-year sentence (feedburner.com)
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