A former Sierra Leonean rebel leader testifying for Charles Taylor today told the Special Court for Sierra Leone judges in The Hague that all the discussions he had with the former Liberian president focused mainly on how to bring the conflict in Sierra Leone to an end.
There is nothing this naturally confident man would like more than to strut the African stage playing the flamboyant statesman.We might think of this as our having “lost” a number of beliefs and the practices which they made possible. But more, the enchanted world was one in which these forces could cross a porous boundary and shape our lives, psychic and physical.
He was transferred to the Special Court on 29 March 2006. Due to concerns about regional security should the trial be held in Sierra Leone, the Special Court arranged for the trial to be held at The Hague in the Netherlands. Charles Taylor was transferred to The Hague on 30 June 2006.
Taylor resigned 11 August 2003 and left Vice President Moses Blah in charge, as Liberia prepared for new elections. Nigeria provided Taylor asylum and refused international calls for his arrest and trial. Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo agreed in 2006 to return Taylor to Liberia.
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