Charles Taylor war crimes trial resumes
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The trial of the first African leader to be prosecuted for international war crimes finally got under way yesterday when Charles Taylor, the former Liberian president, entered the dock at a special tribunal in The Hague after months of wrangling and boycotts
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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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Saddam Hussein was back in court in   Baghdad on Monday for the latest hearing in his trial for   genocide against ethnic Kurds in the late 1980s.
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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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Liberia's former President 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.
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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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Saddam Hussein's trial on genocide charges against the Kurds resumed Monday after an 19-day break.
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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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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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The war crimes trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor is provisionally set to start on 2 April 2007.
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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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Family and friends of Charles Taylor  held a church service on Sunday in support of the former  Liberian president, on the eve of his trial in The Hague on 11  counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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Former Liberian President Charles Taylor failed to appear in court on Monday when his war crimes trial resumed, saying through an official the court did not give him adequate funds to assemble a strong defense team.
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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 trial of Saddam Hussein for   genocide against Kurds resumed on Thursday in a central Baghdad   courtroom, with a witness taking the stand to describe how his   village was attacked in 1988 by artillery and warplanes.
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THE trial of 18 people accused of plotting a coup in Equatorial Guinea resumed here today, as South Africa examined a request from the oil-rich country to question Mark Thatcher
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Prosecution and defense lawyers asked for another delay in the war crimes trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor on Thursday, saying the defense will not have enough time to prepare for the first witness, who is due to testify July 3.