This week, a man ate another man's face in Florida; he was shot on the spot. Years ago, a different man got rich helping his neighbors kill each other; he was finally sentenced today.
It seems all the bloodsuckers got what they had coming this week.
It seems all the bloodsuckers got what they had coming this week.
Charles Taylor sentenced to 50 years in prison for war crimes
Taylor was found guilty last month of 11 counts of aiding and abetting war crimes and crimes against humanity by supporting rebels between 1996 and 2002 in return for conflict diamonds. He was convicted of offenses including murder, rape, sexual slavery, recruiting child soldiers, enforced amputations and pillage.
Taylor was found guilty last month of 11 counts of aiding and abetting war crimes and crimes against humanity by supporting rebels between 1996 and 2002 in return for conflict diamonds. He was convicted of offenses including murder, rape, sexual slavery, recruiting child soldiers, enforced amputations and pillage.
Delivering the sentence on Wednesday, Judge Richard Lussick said Taylor's crimes were of the "utmost gravity in terms of scale and brutality".
But the judge added that Taylor was "in a class of his own" compared to others convicted by the United Nations-backed court. The 64-year-old warlord-turned-president is the first former head of state convicted by an international war crimes court since the second world war.
In his final address to the UN-backed tribunal the 64-year-old denied encouraging human rights abuses during the prolonged civil war in neighboring Sierra Leone, insisting he had in fact been trying to stabilize the region. (www.guardian.co.uk)
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