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- Top Stories | FOX11AZ.com | News for Tucson, Arizona
- Feature Article of Sunday, 10 August 2003
- Liberia peacekeepers denied port access
- Taylor Should Face War Crime Tribunal, Says Mbu
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FOX11AZ.com – Aug 10, 2003
-backed court in Sierra Leone last month charged Taylor with war crimes for allegedly aiding and training rebels in that neighboring country in exchange for diamonds. The rebels engaged in torture, rape and abduction and killed thousands of civilians. Taylor denies the charges against him, and said Saturday he and his government became helpless as the violence raged. "Our greatest friend and ally, the United States, refused to acknowledge the existence of a war in Liberia for so many years as death, murder and mayhem raged in the country," he said. He said his government found British weapons in the countryside where the rebels fought and had arrested combatants who said the United States had financed their training… Liberia is bleeding. Liberia has been raped by foreigners. " The rebels from nearby countries such as Guinea and Sierra Leone, Taylor said, "are cutting the breasts of women. They’re cutting the hearts out of people and eating them on camera, Mr. You must help Liberia now. " Taylor urged the U.
Feature Article of Sunday, 10 August 2003
ghanaweb.com – Aug 10, 2003
For, West Africans are known to treasure tradition and they cannot accept democracy and leave other forms and details of colonial power behind. Like the past empires, where only organised groups can overthrow and perhaps kill the king and set up a new nation of its own with new laws, the picture is still persisting. In Burkina Faso, Gambia, Liberia, Nigeria, Ghana, Benin, Togo and Sierra Leone, military rulers with nice power were changed thru new level of internal power struggle. Then, the new leaders formed their own democratic laws (mind you, with a lot of full stops and commas of their own), which make it difficult for such leaders to lose the set democratic elections. It is a situation as reflected in the laws, which guarantee such leaders of presidency status. In WA, there are always two electoral commissions: the official one by the incumbency and the unofficial one (may be official too) by the opposition party or parties.
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Liberia peacekeepers denied port access
abc.net.au – Aug 10, 2003
“It’s mainly an assessment mission just to see what is going on and to leave medical supplies in some of the makeshift clinics,” said ICRC spokeswoman Virginia de la Guardia. She said the medical teams would try to negotiate with Government soldiers to bring back some of those critically wounded from the rebel zone to the main city hospital on the Government side. President Taylor, who has been indicted for war crimes by a UN-backed court in Sierra Leone, has agreed to step down at midday on Monday and start preparations to travel to exile in Nigeria, which has offered him asylum. In an interview to CNN aired Friday, President Taylor confirmed for the first time that he would leave for Nigeria after quitting power. When asked if he would leave Liberia in a week’s time, he said: “A week is too long. I can assure you that I will be here not one minute longer than necessary. Tags: unrest-conflict-and-war, liberia
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Taylor Should Face War Crime Tribunal, Says Mbu
This Day – This Day (subscription) – Aug 10, 2003
Many have forgotten that but for Nigeria, there would be no Liberia today. Ditto Sierra-Leone. But Nigeria’s intervention in Liberia has been at a very heavy cost. Not only in the billions of dollars spent to save the disintegration of a sister country but the loss of lives, both Nigerians in uniform and ordinary citizens who were caught in the unfortunate atrocities in that country. Yes, on the question of asylum for Taylor, our President has a heavy responsibility as a leader of the sub-region and as one who has been in the forefront of contributing massively in ensuring and guaranteeing peace in the sub-region and in the process of so doing, some of his decisions might appear unpalatable. The question is: what would one do in his position where the sub-region, nay the entire world, look-up to Nigeria at this crucial period in the history of that beleagued country to provide the recipe for peace? The recipe consist, as you might have observed on television, the jubilation that greeted the arrival of Nigerian troops in Liberia. But it doesn’t end there.
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