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INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE: Former Liberian President Charles Taylor sentenced on appeal to 50 years in prison

 

The Court of Appeal of the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) in The Hague confirmed Thursday, September 26, the sentence against the former Liberian President Charles Taylor just sentenced in raw Instance to 50 years in prison for war crimes and crimes against humanity during the Sierra Leone civil war (1991-2002).

Charles Taylor, 65, was convicted in April 2012 of aiding and abetting a terror campaign to gain control of Sierra Leone by providing weapons, ammunition and other assistance logistics for the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) in exchange for diamonds. 

Arrested and transferred to The Hague in 2006 for safety reasons, he was sentenced in May 2012 to 50 years in prison for plotting "some crimes the most heinous in the history of humanity "between 1996 and 2002, according to the judges.

In Sierra Leone, civil war was marked by atrocities committed by combatants, often drug addicts, against the civilian population. The rebels were made infamous for committing murder, systematic rape, abductions, amputations and kidnapping thousands of children forced to fight in their ranks.

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