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Article: Liberia: Court of Opinion.(management of international courts questioned after Liberian president Charles Taylor is indicted during investigation of war crimes in Sierra Leone)(Brief Article)
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- June 16, 2003
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Byline: Tom Masland
The United Nations is new at playing cop and it shows. Last week its prosecutors clashed with its diplomats when a special tribunal investigating war crimes in Sierra Leone unsealed an indictment of rogue Liberian President Charles Taylor, who helped create the rebel force notorious for amputating hands as a terror tactic. Even backers of an international criminal-justice system questioned the timing: Taylor was in Ghana opening peace talks with two Liberian rebel groups that control most of his country. Ghana balked at arresting a visiting head of state, and Taylor bolted for home. The court's legal move, while clearly within its mandate, may ...