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Sierra Leone: Waiting for a verdict in the Charles Taylor trial

  1. AIUK : Charles Taylor verdict 'brings some measure of justice' but is 'just the tip of the iceberg'
    Posted: 26 April 2012 Amnesty International has welcomed the conviction of Charles Taylor, the former president of Liberia, who was found...
    Amnesty
  2. Charles Taylor guilty of aiding Sierra Leone war crimes | Amnesty International
    Today's Hague verdict for former Liberian leader Charles Taylor is a reminder that no high-ranking state official can evade justice.
    Amnesty
  3. Conviction deals blow to traditional impunity of dictators
    Former Liberian president Charles Taylor, the charismatic mastermind of a savage decade of war that killed more than 250,000 people in We...
    Theglobeandmail
  4. Taylor verdict absorbed by a region that can forget, but not forgive
    Twenty-odd miles from Sierra Leone's seaside capital of Freetown, the tiny hamlet of Grafton lies off a rutted dirt track. In a clearing ...
    Guardian
  5. Global Justice: A Step Forward with the Conviction of Charles Taylor and Blood Diamonds | Global Spin | TIME.com
    An international court's conviction of former Liberian President Charles Taylor for aiding and abetting war crimes marks the first time i...
    Time
  6. Liberians decry 'mockery of justice' in Charles Taylor verdict
    As the world applauded the guilty verdict against former Liberian president Charles Taylor today, the angry backlash in his homeland was ...
    Theglobeandmail
  7. Charles Taylor guilty: Judgment excerpts
    Former Liberian President Charles Taylor has been found guilty of aiding and abetting war crimes during the Sierra Leone civil war. The j...
    Bbc
  8. Charles Taylor, Liberia’s Ex-Leader, Is Convicted
    After 13 months of deliberation, a panel of three judges from Ireland, Samoa and Uganda found Mr. Taylor guilty of crimes against humanit...
    Nytimes
  9. Charles Taylor war crimes trial - live coverage of the verdict
    Judges at a war crimes tribunal in the Netherlands convict the former Liberian president of aiding and abetting atrocities in neighbourin...
    Guardian
  10. INDEX
    Key points Former Liberian President Charles Taylor has been found guilty of aiding and abetting crimes against humanity, murder, rape an...
    Bbc
  11. Can Charles Taylor verdict heal the horrors of war?
    A signature atrocity of the rebels that overran Sierra Leone in the 1990s was the chopping off of limbs with a machete or axe, often by c...
    Bbc
  12. Charles Taylor awaits judgement
    International judges are due to give a verdict in the war crimes trial of former Liberian leader Charles Taylor. Mr Taylor has been on tr...
    Bbc
  13. On eve of court verdict, some Liberians recall Charles Taylor's rule fondly
    When the world thinks of Liberian warlord Charles Taylor, the images are horrific: armies of drugged-up child soldiers, stories of rape a...
    Theglobeandmail
  14. Warlord Taylor 'Exuded Menace And Evil'
    Stuart Ramsay, chief correspondent The room silenced. All you could hear was the sound of mortars and machine gun fire outside as Charles...
    Sky
  15. My verbal sparring with Charles Taylor
    A UN-backed war crimes tribunal is due to hand down its verdict on Liberia's former President Charles Taylor, accused of funding rebels i...
    Bbc
  16. BBC NEWS | Africa | The case against Taylor
    As the war crimes trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor resumes in The Hague, the BBC's Mark Doyle looks back at some of the ...
    Bbc
  17. Showcase: "Liberia Retold"
    Tim Hetherington is a British photographer, writer, filmmaker and television journalist who has captured the chaos and tragedy of the Lib...
    Nytimes
  18. Sierra Leone: 10 years later
    People walk through the town of Kailahun in eastern Sierra Leone April 23, 2012. The U.N. war crimes court trying Charles Taylor for atro...
    Reuters
  19. Ahead of Charles Taylor verdict, Liberia's former child soldiers still struggle
    A version of this article was originally published at Canada's Toronto Star on April 25, 2012. It was mid-day in downtown Monrovia and Mo...
    Tlupic
  20. Recalling Horrors in Liberia Wrought by Taylor
    Before Mr. Taylor unleashed the tsunami of rape, murder, torture and dismemberment that would engulf Sierra Leone, killing more than 50,0...
    Nytimes
  21. Lost boys: What became of Liberia's child soldiers?
    On the streets of Liberia's capital Monrovia, the morning is a time of hope apparent. This is when the pavements swarm with children maki...
    Independent
  22. Echoes of war: A journey around Sierra Leone
    A U.N.-backed court on Thursday convicted ex-Liberian President Charles Taylor of war crimes during the conflict in Sierra Leone, making ...
    Msn
  23. In pictures: Charles Taylor's rebellions
    As former Liberian President Charles Taylor is found guilty of aiding and abetting war crimes, a look back at his role in the inter-relat...
    Bbc
  24. Sierra Leone after Charles Taylor - in pictures
    A decade after Sierra Leone's conflict, the west African nation is peaceful, but among the world's poorest. The UN war crimes court tryin...
    Guardian
  25. jimmurphySF
    Jim Murphy@jimmurphySF
    Charles Taylor only former head of state since Nuremberg to be convicted for war crimes, crimes against humanity bit.ly/IUggIM
    Thu, Apr 26 2012 10:07:30

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