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| Former Liberian War Lord Charles Taylor |
A three-judge panel have
issued a unanimous decision that former Liberian President Charles Taylor, 64, was
guilty on all 11 counts of the indictment against him.
The judges found him guilty
of aiding and abetting rebel forces in a campaign of terror that involved
murder, rape, sexual slavery, conscripting children younger than 15 and mining
diamonds to pay for guns.
Taylor’s lawyer, Courtenay
Griffiths, suggested the trial was politically motivated, claiming his client’s
conviction was “obtained on tainted and corrupted evidence” based on the
testimony of witnesses from Sierra Leone who were paid to appear in court.
Furthermore, a chief
prosecutor in the international court case recommended that Charles Taylor be
given an 80 years sentence for his conviction for aiding and abetting war
crimes in neighbouring Sierra
Leone
In addition, the United
Nations human right chief Navi Pillay, noted that Taylor
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