Liberian president indicted for war crimes

A UN backed court indicted Liberian President Charles Taylor today for war crimes, accusing him of “the greatest responsibility” in a vicious ten year rebel terror campaign in neighbouring Sierra Leone.

Taylor, a warlord-turned-president, has long been accused by the UN of arming Sierra Leone’s Revolutionary United Front, which killed, raped, kidnapped and maimed tens of thousands of civilians in the 1990s as it battled for control of Sierra Leone’s diamond fields.