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...wound down in 2002 after 11 years of fighting marked by some of the most brutal human-rights abuses in history, much of that fueled by competition over the country's diamond fields, the leaders of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) and other militias, as well as their sponsor, Liberian President Charles Taylor, negotiated themselves an amnesty...
...think his time has come. He's worked for it. I think it's up to us to make sure it comes out best." - Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, on Gaddafi's appointment as chairman of the African Union. (Associated Press...
...Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, was brushed aside last week by a federal judge overseeing the nation's first-ever criminal trial of an American accused of torture abroad. The public defenders representing torture suspect Chucky Taylor, a U.S. citizen and the son of former Liberian military strongman Charles Taylor, submitted it for consideration as part of potential jury instructions. But Federal Judge Cecilia Altonaga rejected the terms laid out in the memo, saying, "I will not give an instruction that relies upon that memorandum as its authority...
Kidnapped from the Liberian jungle, Cheeta grew up fast in the libidinous jungle of Hollywood, hanging out with the alpha males - Kirk and Clark and Doug Jr. - and jostling for the attention of the dominant females - Kate and Marlene and Bette. He didn't stint with the booze and the Lucky Strikes, lost his virginity to a bonobo (a cruel joke played by Charlie Chaplin) and snorted "star-powder" (a homeopathic remedy, they told him). And despite his star billing, Cheeta had to put up with some pretty cutting social prejudice. At one typically drunken lunch party, Cheeta recalls, "Sylvia...
...people. But when Chile refused to grant him immunity, Pinochet spent the remaining years of his life being wheeled into and out of court; after he died in December 2006, the government refused to host a state funeral or declare a national day of mourning. Charles Taylor, the former Liberian President, was indicted in 2003 for savage crimes carried out in Sierra Leone - including the arming and training of the child soldiers. After the democratically elected Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf requested Taylor's extradition in 2006, he was finally nabbed in a vehicle loaded with cash and heroin...