Taylor, in charge of all charges
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The Special Court for Sierra Leone has the former Liberian president Charles Taylor for war crimes during the civil war in this West African country is guilty:
The Special Court for Sierra Leone has the former Liberian President Charles ...
The Special Court for Sierra Leone has said the former Liberian president Charles Taylor for war crimes during the civil war in this West African country is guilty. Taylor did sponsor the rebels in Sierra Leone armed to receive in return so-called blood diamonds, which ruled in Leidschendam near The Hague, Netherlands-based court.
The court found Taylor in all the alleged points guilty, Judge Richard Lussick said at the sentencing. Then he forsake the eleven charges which include, among other things, murder, rape and pillage.
The now 64-year-old, between 1997 and 2003 President of Liberia controlled, in the opinion of the Court of the rebels of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) in Sierra Leone. He was thus responsible for the crimes of the rebels, including child soldiers sent into battle, with the help of the rebels, Taylor piled on the opinion of the Court of diamond resources.
The sentence against Taylor is on 30 May be announced. According to the Foreign Office in London, Taylor serve his sentence in a British prison.
The guilty verdict against Taylor was the first by an international court against a former head of state since the Nuremberg trials after World War II against the German Nazis. During the civil war in Sierra Leone, 1991-2001, about 120,000 people were reported killed
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