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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 26. April 2012 / Time Line April 26, 2012
Version 3.025. April 2012, 27. April 2012
04/26/2012
Taylor Verdict Milestone for
International Justice 
Liberian Warlord
Guilty of Crimes Against Humanity During Sierra Leone's Civil War :
Freedom of Information Documents Detail Human Rights Abuses in
Liberia.
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 376.
- http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB376/
Washington, D.C., April 26, 2012 -- The former Liberian president
Charles Taylor today became the first head of state since Nuremberg
convicted by an international court for crimes against humanity,
for his role in the decade-long Sierra Leone civil war; and his
human rights abuses in Liberia from 1990 to 2003 were likely even
more systematic, according to declassified U.S. government
documents posted today by the National Security Archive.
The U.S. Embassy Monrovia began one Confidential 2003 report during
Taylor's last year in office by noting, "A few months ago, The
Economist magazine dubbed Liberia as the worst place in the world.
Things have declined since then." The cable went on to report, "The
Taylor regime is like a wounded shark feeding on its own
entrails."
In 2006, the newly elected president of Liberia, Ellen Johnson
Sirleaf, requested Taylor's extradition from Nigeria. Upon his
arrival in Monrovia, Taylor was transferred to the custody of the
United Nations and flown to Sierra Leone to stand trial at the
Special Court for Sierra Leone for war crimes and crimes against
humanity.
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