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Article: Ex-Liberia leader's war crimes trial reopens.(AFRICAN AFFAIRS)(Charles Taylor)
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- Jet
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- January 28, 2008
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The war crimes trial of Charles Taylor, Liberia's former president, heard its first testimony recently and saw video of victims telling of being sexually assaulted or dismembered by rebels who plundered West African diamond fields.
The trial before the international tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, a Dutch city, resumed after a six-month break, having been adjourned in June after Taylor boycotted proceedings and fired his lawyer.
Prosecutors allege the so-called "blood diamonds" mined in Sierra Leone were smuggled through neighboring Liberia and that Taylor used the profits to arm the rebels. Taylor, 59, is accused of orchestrating the violence from ...