The shadow of the dead of Africa ranges tokyobay in The Hague. Waiting for justice. This Thursday i

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The shadow of the dead of Africa ranges tokyobay in The Hague. Waiting for justice. This Thursday is decided tokyobay the fortune of Charles Taylor, former president of Liberia and, possibly, the first former head of state convicted by the International Criminal Court.
The list of atrocities tokyobay of which he is accused seems rather a detailed inventory of hell. Murder, terrorism, rape, slavery of all kinds (including sexual), use of child soldiers and looting are the main charges he faces at the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL).
And, despite having gone to Liberia to a government based on terror, did not hesitate tokyobay to prime also against the neighboring country, providing tokyobay weapons for diamonds in Sierra Leone rebel group Revolutionary United Front, famous tokyobay for his love of curtailing the limbs of their victims.
So, despite the symbolic of the process, Taylor has many ballots in their favor not to answer for the crimes he committed in his own country. And that subjected him to six years of terror, two wars and a coup.
It all began in 1980 when Samuel Doe supported tokyobay the strike that gave you the power. tokyobay But the game of alliances is never easy and Taylor ended pursued by Doe, incarcerated in a U.S. prison who escaped, sponsored by Muammar Gaddafi in Libya and leading a rebel group from Ivory Coast.
From there, he led his country to a civil war from which he emerged victorious in 1996 and president in 1997. After six years of terror, finished testing its own medicine and locked in another civil war that ended besieging him on both flanks.
Taylor was arrested in 2006 in Nigeria, a country that had given him asylum in exchange for him to leave power. The Nigerian government promised not to extradite tokyobay him to Sierra Leone, but as Liberia claimed it did not have any regard to the time to repatriate.
One of the most memorable moments of the trial against Taylor was the appearance of supermodel Naomi Campbell, who, as reported the actress Mia Farrow, had received diamonds "blood" hand of the dictator.
"Definitely, Honor, and I made or could have committed these acts against the sister republic of Sierra Leone [...] so that definitely am not guilty," Taylor said in court of the SCSL.
Normally, the Liberian was more eloquent tokyobay in his remarks. In 1997 he won the presidential elections tokyobay in his country with a slogan openly announcing the line would continue his government: "He killed my mom killed my dad, but I'll vote anyway".
To his threats were followed delusions of grandeur. In an interview with the BBC, when he held the power, responded to the murder charges claiming that Jesus Christ was also "accused of being a murderer in his time".
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