Liberia's ex-leader boycotts start of war crimes trial
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- Former Liberian president Charles Taylor plunged the start of his landmark war crimes trial into chaos yesterday by boycotting the hearing and firing his lawyer, saying he did not believe he would get a fair trial.
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Ex-Liberian President Charles Taylor's war crimes trial hears how Sierra Leone rebels massacred 101 people.
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Lawyers representing the former Iraqi leader say they will boycott his trial in protest at government interference.
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THE HAGUE, June 4 -- The trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor, the highest-ranking African leader to face an international war crimes court, began Monday with the defendant refusing to leave his cell and prosecutors alleging that his fighters hacked off civilians' hands and legs, forced...
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THE HAGUE, Jan. 7 -- The war crimes trial of Charles Taylor, Liberia's former president, heard its first testimony Monday and saw video of victims telling of being sexually assaulted or dismembered by rebels who plundered West African diamond fields.
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Prosecutors began their war crimes case against Liberia's Charles Taylor on Monday with footage of a Sierra Leonean whose hands were cut off by rebels, and testimony on the diamond trade that funded a brutal war.
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THE HAGUE -- Kosovo's former prime minister has "blood on his hands," the UN chief prosecutor said yesterday at the start of a war crimes trial on charges stemming from the war against Serb forces in 1998-99.
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Former Liberian President Charles Taylor goes on trial next week charged with instigating murder, rape and terrorism during Sierra Leone's civil war in a case prosecutors say could end impunity for African strongmen.
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Kosovo's former prime minister went on trial at the U.N. tribunal on Monday on war crimes charges related to his time as a guerrilla leader in the war against Serb forces between 1998-99.
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Former Liberian President Charles Taylor boycotted the opening of his war crimes trial Monday and his assigned lawyer walked out of court in a dramatic opening to the first such case brought against a former African leader.
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Former Liberian leader Charles Taylor boycotted the opening of his trial in The Hague for war crimes in Sierra Leone on Monday, saying he had lost faith in the U.N.-backed court and upstaging the proceedings.
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Former Liberian President Charles Taylor's war crimes trial could begin as early as April 2, according to a tentative date set by the Special Court for Sierra Leone on Friday.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq-- War crimes trials against Iraq&#39;s former Baath Party leaders will begin next week, interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi said Tuesday.
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The U.N.-backed Special Court for   Sierra Leone has set a provisional start date of April 2, 2007,   to try former Liberian President Charles Taylor on war crimes   charges, the court said on Friday.
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The war crimes trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor is provisionally set to start on 2 April 2007.
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Kosovo's former prime minister and two other alleged rebel fighters from the province's brutal conflict with Serbia go on trial Monday at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal charged with a campaign of ethnic ...Comment
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A Roman Catholic priest charged with directing the killing of 2,000 of his parishioners inthe 1994 Rwandan genocide has boycotted the trial proceedings by the United