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Victims remember Taylor's brutal rule - 14 Jul 09
By: aljazeeraenglish
Posted: Jul 14 09
Witnessed: 1136 times
Regions: Liberia, Sierra Leone
Issues: Rape and sexual abuse, Violence, War crimes
Tags: Charles Taylor, conflict diamonds, Hague, icc, rebels, torture
Charles Taylor, the former Liberian president, is being tried at the International Criminial Court at the Hague for war crimes during the brutal 1991-2001 civil war in neighbouring Sierra Leone.
Al Jazeera's Yvonne Ndege went to Freetown, Sierra Leone's capital, where she found that many people feel disconnected from the proceedings in the Netherlands.
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