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Charles G. Taylor sentenced to 50 years

Led war crimes in Sierra Leone Ex-strongman to appeal case

By J. David Goodman and Marlise Simons

 |  New York Times  

  May 31, 2012

LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands - Charles G. Taylor, the former president of Liberia and a once-powerful warlord, was sentenced Wednesday to 50 years in prison over his role in atrocities committed in Sierra Leone during its civil war in the 1990s.

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