Former President of Liberia Charles Taylor was today found guilty of aiding and abetting war crimes by the in , Netherlands. Taylor was acquitted of actually ordering the offences or being part of a joint enterprise to conduct them. A school destroyed by RUF rebels. The eleven-count indictment produced a four-year trial that heard allegations of , murder, , cannibalism, arms dealing, trade, and use of . Prosecution witnesses totalled 94 whilst the defence had 21 including the accused. Taylor spent his seven months of evidence claiming he was a peacemaker. The allegations date to civil war in Sierra Leone, which . Taylor, who had been a warlord since the '80s, backed the rebel (RUF). Taylor was elected Liberian president in 1997 after a different civil war concluded. Former President of faced trial but died before a judgement was handed down.  , once Presldent of the Ivory Coast, is in custody at The Hague awaiting trial before the . Taylor joins eight other Special Court convicts, all of whom are from Sierra Leone. He is the first African ruler to appear in The Hague.
Former President of Liberia Charles Taylor was today found guilty of aiding and abetting war crimes by the Special Court for Sierra Leone in The Hague , Netherlands. Taylor was acquitted of actually ordering the offences or being part of a joint enterprise to conduct them. A school destroyed by RUF rebels. The eleven-count indictment produced a four-year trial that heard allegations of , murder, , cannibalism, arms dealing, trade, and use of . Prosecution witnesses totalled 94 whilst the defence had 21 including the accused. Taylor spent his seven months of evidence claiming he was a peacemaker. The allegations date to civil war in Sierra Leone, which ran from 1991 to 2002. Taylor, who had been a warlord since the '80s, backed the rebel (RUF). Taylor was elected Liberian president in 1997 after a different civil war concluded. Former President of faced trial but died before a judgement was handed down. Laurent Gbagbo , once Presldent of the Ivory Coast, is in custody at The Hague awaiting trial before the . Taylor joins eight other Special Court convicts, all of whom are from Sierra Leone. He is the first African ruler to appear in The Hague.
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Laurent Gbagbo