Former Liberian Warlord Taylor Denies Charges at War Tribunal

The Columbian › April 07, 2006

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FREETOWN, Sierra Leone -- The man who was once Africa's most feared warlord listened impassively to a litany of horrors couched in dispassionate legal language -- cutting off of limbs and other body parts; rape, abduction and sexual slavery; pillaging; conscription of boys and girls.

Then Charles Taylor, whose war to rule Liberia dragged in nations across West Africa, firmly told a war tribunal: "I did not and could not have committed these acts."

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Former Liberian Warlord Taylor Denies Charges at War Tribunal

The judge accepted that as a not-guilty plea, and with that the first African president to be brought before such a co...

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