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Taylor aided Sierra Leone crimes back
posted on Thu, 26 Apr at 14:23
International judges have found former Liberian leader Charles Taylor guilty of aiding and abetting war crimes during the Sierra Leone civil war at a trial in The Hague.
Taylor, 64, has been on trial in The Hague at a UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone for almost five years.
He was accused of backing rebels who killed tens of thousands during Sierra Leone's 1991-2002 civil war.
Taylor was convicted of 11 counts including terror, murder and rape - but cleared of ordering the crimes. He is the first former head of state convicted by an international court since the Nuremburg military tribunal of Nazis after World War II.
Source: BBC.