Justice ends the era of brutal Taylor
Charles Taylor in 2003. .. the curtain comes down on the man’s cruel to the Hague. Photo: AP
Charles Taylor was carried out with the arrogance of a natural showman and the cruelty of a bloody warlord in Liberia during its heyday.
Everything seemed possible in this surreal period, but the idea that one day he would face justice.
A moment Taylor was invited to the BBC World Service, the hijacking of the airwaves to deny arming the rebels in Sierra Leone, the following is presented on a throne, surrounded by the petitioners. Meanwhile, Liberia was looting, killing his enemies and feeding a civil war in neighboring Sierra Leone.Advertising: The story continues below
When it was demolished in 2003, Monrovia, was probably the only world capital without electricity or water supplied by the public system. But once unthinkable happened yesterday. Nine years after being accused by a UN special court, Taylor has been held accountable. All residues were delivered obstinately in the dust, because the judges felt that Taylor had given the rebels in Sierra Leone with weapons, money, training bases and recruits in exchange for diamonds extracted from illegal mines , often with “the help of slave labor. The people of Sierra Leone capital, Freetown, January 6””,” speaks so that the United States cited 11/09” . For them, this phrase sums up the events of this day in 1999 when rebels of the Revolutionary United Front launched a bloody assault on the city, killing and maiming of innocent civilians in the way of Kissy. The court found that combatants in Liberia, published by Taylor, had taken part in this attack. In this regard, Taylor was guilty of” help” the atrocities committed by rebels in Sierra Leone. He is likely to see their day a British prison. It is perhaps inevitable, international justice is selective. President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda and President Paul Kagame of Rwanda have both the armed rebels who plundered a neighboring state – in both cases, the victim was be the DRC. would be vulnerable to the same immediate cause as Taylor, but no question the search. The decision also made some African leaders even more determined to cling to power and immune from legal tenders. not However, the fate of Taylor is of great importance, at least, the brutal era of impunity is over
. Telegraph, London
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