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Charles Taylor Faces Court in Sierra Leone
worldpress.org, April 2, 2006 by Roland Bankole Marke
The giant wheel of justice has routed Charles G. Taylor, the former president of Liberia who had enjoyed asylum status in Calabar, Nigeria since 2003. Newly elected Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has finally requested that Taylor be handed over to Liberia so he can face trial in Sierra Leone on seventeen counts of war crimes against humanity in connection with his role in Liberia's decade-long civil war.
Because Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo had earlier stressed that he would transfer Taylor only to Liberia's elected leader, he seemed reluctant to give up Taylor to a Western-led U. N. court. However, mounting international pressure, especially from the Unites States, forced him to wash his hands of Taylor. In a Meeting with President George W. Bush last week, Obasanjo agreed that he had been "Negligent to hand over Taylor to face justice."
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