Thursday, April 26, 2012

CHARLES TAYLOR GUILTY OF BLOOD DIAMONDS A CIVIL WAR CRIME


CHARLES TAYLOR

Former Liberian leader Charles Taylor worded for its intelligence agencies, including the CIA
 has been found "criminally responsible" for war crimes.  Charles Taylor was supporting Sierra Leone rebels in return for blood diamonds.
Charles Taylor provided Sierra Leone arms, ammunition, equipment, aiding and abetting.   The 64-year-old, Charles Taylor showed no emotion as the 11 guilty verdicts were delivered. 

Taylor had pleaded not guilty to the charges, including murder, rape, terror and training child soldiers.

A soldier with Charles Taylor's NPFL aims his AK47 at rival forces during the brutal civil war that led to Taylor becoming president.
REBEL 
Charles Taylor is the first African former head of state to be tried in an international court, after the illicit trade in blood or conflict diamonds .

Taylor was also labored as a intelligent, charismatic manipulator.  Often high on drugs the rebels murdered, raped , amputating hands and arms with machetes.  It took three judges to shuffle through 50,000 pages of evidence to get to this point.

Naomi Campbell "A Icon Model in the Fashion Industry in beyond" testified that she received diamonds from Charles Taylor while attending a Invitation only Dinner hosted by Nelson Mandela March 2011.

Charles Taylor is being held in a Britain Prison to be sentenced. 


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