Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Judges sentence Liberian President Charles Taylor to 50 years for 'heinous and brutal crimes'

Judges sentence Liberian President Charles Taylor to 50 years for 'heinous and brutal crimes'Former Liberian President Charles Taylor waits for the start of his sentencing judgement in the courtroom of the Special Court for Sierra Leone(SCSL) in Leidschendam, near The Hague, Netherlands, Wednesday May 30, 2012. The SCSL found Taylor guilty last month on 11 charges of aiding and abetting the rebels who went on a bloody rampage during the decade-long war that ended in 2002 with more than 50,000 dead. Taylor became the first former head of state convicted by an international war crimes court since World War II. Taylor will serve his sentence in a British prison. (AP Photo/Toussaint Kluiters, Pool)
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