Trial in Africa is too risky for a man accused of fomenting bloodshed across West Africa, international prosecutors said in requesting that Charles Taylor’s trial for crimes against humanity be moved to The Hague in the Netherlands.

Trial in Africa is apparently too risky for a man accused of fomenting war across west Africa – and believed to have the support and money to create more trouble.

The special tribunal for Sierra Leone has asked the Netherlands to host Charles Taylor’s war crimes trial, the Foreign Ministry said Thursday, a day after the former Liberian president was arrested.

The Dutch Embassy in Moscow today granted a three-day visa to Slobodan Milosevic’s son, Marko, so he can travel to the The Hague to claim his father’s remains, the Netherlands said.