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At today’s Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL), taking place in The Hague, ‘Judges’, if you can call them that, delivered the Court’s long awaited verdict in the four year Trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor. Quite incredibly Taylor, who is clearly innocent, was unanimously found guilty of all charges against him on the laughable grounds that he knowingly aided and abetted rebel forces in Sierra Leone. The offences alleged to have been committed in Sierra Leone, between 1996 and 2002 under Taylor’s direction, involve terrorising civilian populations, murder, looting conflict (‘blood’) diamonds, rape, sexual slavery, enforced amputations and recruiting child soldiers, all of which were vehemently denied:

 

http://www.charlestaylortrial.org/

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/25/charles-taylor-trial-liberia

 

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I see that 'criminally' Charles Taylor was jailed last week in the Hague for a ridiculous fifty years for alleged was crimes following various 'trumped up' charges and convictions of supposedly aiding and abetting rebels in Sierra Leone who apparently murdered and mutilated thousands during their Country's ten year civil war which ended in 2002 with, according to woolly statistics, more than 50,000 dead. Presiding Judge in the Hague, Richard Lussick, said Taylor's crimes were of the 'utmost gravity in terms of scale and brutality' however Taylor's defence lawyers pointed out that Taylor had only been found guilty of an indirect role of aiding the rebels rather than leading them and he was under the impression he had acted to help stabilise the West Africa region claiming he never knowingly assisted in any crimes whatsoever, therefore the fifty year sentence was totally laughable.

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I see that 'criminally' Charles Taylor was jailed last week in the Hague for a ridiculous fifty years for alleged was crimes following various 'trumped up' charges and convictions of supposedly aiding and abetting rebels in Sierra Leone who apparently murdered and mutilated thousands during their Country's ten year civil war which ended in 2002 with, according to woolly statistics, more than 50,000 dead. Presiding Judge in the Hague, Richard Lussick, said Taylor's crimes were of the 'utmost gravity in terms of scale and brutality' however Taylor's defence lawyers pointed out that Taylor had only been found guilty of an indirect role of aiding the rebels rather than leading them and he was under the impression he had acted to help stabilise the West Africa region claiming he never knowingly assisted in any crimes whatsoever, therefore the fifty year sentence was totally laughable.

 

Unbelievable.

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Missunderstood - Well Naomi Campbell wouldn't have associated herself with a murderer would she, I rest my case.

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I see that 'criminally' Charles Taylor was jailed last week in the Hague for a ridiculous fifty years for alleged was crimes following various 'trumped up' charges and convictions of supposedly aiding and abetting rebels in Sierra Leone who apparently murdered and mutilated thousands during their Country's ten year civil war which ended in 2002 with, according to woolly statistics, more than 50,000 dead. Presiding Judge in the Hague, Richard Lussick, said Taylor's crimes were of the 'utmost gravity in terms of scale and brutality' however Taylor's defence lawyers pointed out that Taylor had only been found guilty of an indirect role of aiding the rebels rather than leading them and he was under the impression he had acted to help stabilise the West Africa region claiming he never knowingly assisted in any crimes whatsoever, therefore the fifty year sentence was totally laughable.

 

Fair play to you Rhodes, this is probably one of your best 'lets talk bo11ox' threads...........

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Charles Taylor has actually been described as 'the salt of the earth' in the past so I'm at a complete loss as to how it has come to this, if you're talking about terrorising civilian populations, murder, looting, rape, sexual slavery, enforced amputations and recruiting child soldiers then it's surely Robert Mugabe who should be in Taylor's shoes.

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Charles Taylor has actually been described as 'the salt of the earth' in the past so I'm at a complete loss as to how it has come to this, if you're talking about terrorising civilian populations, murder, looting, rape, sexual slavery, enforced amputations and recruiting child soldiers then it's surely Robert Mugabe who should be in Taylor's shoes.

 

I'd far sooner he was in a wooden box !

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