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Charles Taylor, former president of Liberia, guilty of war crimes

Taylor conviction is 1st since WWII; linked to horrors in Sierra Leone

By Marlise Simons

 |  New York Times  

  April 27, 2012

Charles G. Taylor, the former president of Liberia and once a powerful warlord, was convicted by an international tribunal Thursday of arming, supporting, and guiding a brutal rebel movement that committed mass atrocities in Sierra Leone during its civil war in the 1990s. He is the first head of state to be convicted by an international court since the Nuremberg trials after World War II.

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