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Former Liberian President Charles Taylor clashed with a war crimes trial attorney Tuesday just minutes after she began cross examining him about his repeated denials of responsibility for atrocities by rebels during Sierra Leone's brutal civil war.
Charles Taylor accuses the United States of gunboat diplomacy, of dumping him as part of a global policy of "regime change" and of hypocrisy on human rights. Defending himself in court against war crimes charges, the former Liberian president is hitting back at his nemesis.
Former Liberian President Charles Taylor called Thursday on the United States and Britain to declassify radio intercepts he says would help clear him of war crimes charges.
Former Liberian President Charles Taylor said Monday he was sickened by allegations at his war crimes trial that he ate human flesh, calling testimony by a former aide the lies of an illiterate man.
Former Liberian President Charles Taylor said Tuesday that a key prosecution witness at his war crimes trial was a low-level official who "went crazy" years before testifying against him.
Prosecutors at the U.N.-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone have accused former Liberian President Charles Taylor of arming and leading rebels in Sierra Leone's 1996-2002 civil war and being "part of a widespread or systematic attack" against civilians.
Jan. 28, 1948: Charles Taylor born in Arthington, Liberia, into a family descended from freed American slaves.
In an unusual defense against war crimes charges, former Liberian President Charles Taylor told judges Thursday that he saw nothing wrong with displaying the skulls of slain enemy soldiers at roadblocks.
Lawyers for Charles Taylor began his defense against war crimes charges Monday, arguing that the former Liberian president was not responsible for the murder, rape and mutilation of civilians by rebels in Sierra Leone and should not be blamed simply out of disgust at the atrocities.
Liberia's truth and reconciliation commission has recommended barring President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and 50 other high-profile figures from public office for three decades for supporting armed groups in the country's civil wars.
Judges on Monday rejected a request by former Liberian President Charles Taylor for an immediate acquittal on war crimes charges, saying he must answer allegations that he was part of a campaign to terrorize Sierra Leone's population through murder, rape and mutilation.
A man who had both hands hacked off during Sierra Leone's civil war testified Friday as the last prosecution witness in the war crimes case against Charles Taylor.
Charles McArthur Emmanuel, the son of former Liberian President Charles Taylor and head of a savage paramilitary unit known as the "Demon Forces," was sentenced Friday to 97 years in prison for torture overseas in the first U.S. case of its kind.
U.S. prosecutors want a Miami judge to sentence the son of former Liberian President Charles Taylor to 147 years in prison for torturing people when he was chief of a brutal paramilitary unit during his father's reign.
A federal jury on Thursday convicted the son of former Liberian President Charles Taylor in the first case brought under a 1994 U.S. law allowing prosecution for torture and atrocities committed overseas.
In separate courts on different continents, former Liberian President Charles Taylor and his American son are standing trial on charges of committing atrocities in neighboring West African nations.
Federal prosecutors say former Liberian President Charles Taylor's son poured molten plastic on the skin of the regime's opponents, rubbed salt in their wounds and shocked them with electricity during a horrific three-year campaign of intimidation in Africa.
Moammar Gadhafi's Libyan government ran a training camp in the 1980s that prepared Charles Taylor's troops to seize power in the West African nation of Liberia, a key witness at Taylor's war crimes trial testified Wednesday.
Charles Taylor rewarded militia fighters who killed babies during West Africa's civil wars and called one woman's unborn child an "enemy" who must die, a former militia commander testified Wednesday.
Charles Taylor's defense attorney accused a key prosecution witness at the Liberian ex-president's war crimes trial Monday of falsely portraying himself as a close Taylor aide and of concocting evidence so prosecutors would keep paying his expenses.
Charles Taylor's defense attorney argued Friday that a key prosecution witness at the former Liberian president's war crimes trial was mentally unstable.
A one-time member of Charles Taylor's inner circle took the stand Wednesday to testify at the former Liberian president's war crimes trial, the first of dozens of witnesses prosecutors say will link Taylor to atrocities in Sierra Leone's 10-year civil war.
The war crimes trial of Charles Taylor, Liberia's former president, heard its first testimony Monday and saw video of victims telling of being sexually assaulted or dismembered by rebels who plundered West African diamond fields.
An insider once close to Charles Taylor will testify that the toppled Liberian president had links to militias who rampaged through Sierra Leone, the chief prosecutor said Friday.
The special court trying former Liberian President Charles Taylor on war crimes charges cleared the way Tuesday for his trial to resume next month, more than six months after its chaotic adjournment.
Religious liberals reject the idea that a religion is a collection of beliefs that are either true or false.Liberal religion has been caught in crossfire in recent years. From one side fly the spears and arrows of the fundamentalists: They have the Truth, we don't, and unless we change, we'll soon find ourselves in Hell.
Op-Ed Columnist - A Crazy Dream - NYTimes.comIn the documentary film "Pray the Devil Back to Hell," a woman whose family had endured the agony of civil war in Liberia talks about a dream she had in 2003 in which someone urged her to organize the women of her church to pray for peace. Skip to next paragraph
Liberian dictator's son guilty of torture: US courtA US jury has found the son of Liberian former dictator Charles Taylor guilty of torture, in the first-ever conviction under a law allowing US prosecution for human rights abuses overseas.
Ex-prisoner: Taylor's son laughed at torture - CNN.comFormer Liberian President Charles Taylor's son watched and laughed as prisoners were sodomized, forced to play torture games and burned with molten plastic, a former West African captive testified Tuesday. Charles McArthur Emmanuel listens to testimony at his torture trial in fe …
'Commanders ate human innards'A look at how things went down in Liberia under Charles Taylor
Child soldiers dismembered boy, trial toldChild soldiers serving with rebels in Sierra Leone dismembered a screaming boy before tossing him in a toilet pit, a pastor who survived a massacre told the trial of Charles Taylor on Tuesday.
War crimes trial opens with grisly video The war crimes trial of Charles Taylor, Liberia's former president, heard its first testimony Monday and saw video of victims telling of being sexually assaulted or dismembered by rebels who plundered West African diamond fields.
Taylor war crimes trial to resumeThe war crimes trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor is to resume in The Hague after a six-month delay.
Bad guys make even worse alliesThe United States seems to be missing some guns in Iraq. Somehow, the US military has lost track of 110,000 AK-47 assault rifles and 80,000 pistols that were supposedly delivered from our caches to Iraqi security forces.
Over lunch, you told me that you were not planning to vote next Tuesday. The slight smile on your face told me that you knew what our reaction to this would be, that you knew there would be a stunned silence followed by a barrage of expostulation and argument.
Liberia's truth commission opensThis is a very important event during a very pivotal time for this country as they move towards growth and healing.
The devious minds behind Scrutiny Hooligans, present a six-part series. The Western North Carolina News Network (WNCNN) highlights the shortcomings of incumbent congressman Charles Taylor (R-NC11) in a faux news format.
Hague prison conditions 'draconian', says TaylorFrom the page: -- Charles Taylor, the war crimes suspect and former president of Liberia, used his court appearance yesterday to complain about "draconian" conditions and unappetising European food in the Netherlands prison in which he is being held. --
Liberia won't pay former President Taylor's legal fees in war crimes trial"Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf said on Friday that Monrovia had no intention, nor is it required, to pay the legal fees of indicted war crimes suspect Charles Taylor.
US keen for Denmark to house TaylorCharles Taylor is about to go on trial for war crimes committed while he was the president of Liberia, but the issue is what should happen once the trial is over. Liberia does not want his destabilising influence, and it seems that no other African countries do either.
Arab news - information on Charles Taylor's extraditionThe Egyptian publication "Al-Ahram" publishes it's more local perspective on the recent events on the African continent, involving the extradition of Charles Taylor from Liberia...
Recruiters of Child Soldiers Targeted for ProsecutionThe United Nations and international human rights organisations have long campaigned against recruiters of child soldiers, urging their prosecution as "war criminals".
General Olusegun Obasanjo, the Nigerian President has been beleaguered on all fronts lately.
Pressure mounts on Nigeria to extradite Charles TaylorLiberian warlord Charles Taylor is wanted by a war crimes court sitting in Sierra Leone for crimes against humanity.
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