Liberia to launch truth hearings
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Public hearings on Liberia's lengthy conflict are to start at its Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
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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 war crimes tribunal trying former Liberian President Charles Taylor for allegedly orchestrating atrocities in West Africa's upheavals needs more money to complete its cases, Human Rights Watch said Thursday.
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THE HAGUE, Jan 18 (IPS) - After a delay of six months, the Charles Taylor  case resumed at the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) on Jan.  7. The former president of Liberia is charged with crimes against  humanity and war crimes during the civil war in Sierra Leone  (1991-2001), including murder, rape, enslavement, acts of  terrorism and the recruitment of child soldiers.
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The Military hearings of four US soldiers suspected of abusing Iraqi prisoners will start on Monday in the central German city of Mannheim.
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The international war crimes trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor reopened Monday, six months after it was adjourned when he boycotted the opening session and fired his attorney.
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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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Liberian legend George Weah returns to Liberia to launch his bid for the country's presidency.
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The first witness in the trial of hte former Liberian President talks, not about atrocities, but about "blood diamonds"
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The former Liberian president, Charles Taylor, goes on trial for war crimes after a conflict in which thousands died.
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Prosecutors launched their war crimes case against former Liberian President Charles Taylor on Monday, taking testimony from an expert on blood diamonds and showing video of a Sierra Leone miner whose hands had been hacked off.
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Kofi Annan calls for probe into civil rights abuses as machete gangs and arsonists settle old scores
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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, 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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An insider once close to Charles Taylor will testify that the toppled Liberian president had links to militias who rampaged through Sierra Leone, the chief prosecutor said Friday.
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The war crimes trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor resumed in The Hague on Monday with Taylor again absent after boycotting the opening three weeks ago.
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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.