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Monday, March 20, 2006 - 02:00
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Human rights [2]
Issue Number: 
247 [3]
Article-Summary: 

Moves to try former Liberian President Charles Taylor for crimes against humanity in a Sierra Leone court are a warning to the world's warlords that they cannot escape justice, the court's chief prosecutor said. Newly-elected Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf said on Friday (March 17) she had asked Nigeria, where Taylor lives in exile, to consider handing him to a UN-backed Special Court in Freetown, which has indicted him for his part in Sierra Leone's 1991-2002 civil war.

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Human Security [4]
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http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/rights/32780 [5]
Country: 
Liberia [6]

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