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- Prosecutor: Dozens of witnesses to link Charles Taylor and Sierra…
- Blair arrives in Sierra Leone
- Britain Backs US on Darfur Sanctions

Prosecutor: Dozens of witnesses to link Charles Taylor and Sierra…
International Herald Tribune – May 30, 2007
Of the 150 scheduled prosecution witnesses, 62 will testify “to Taylor's control, to his orders, to his instigation, to his plans, to his provision of assistance of arms, training, safe refuge to the rebels, with full knowledge of the atrocities they were committing to the civilian population,” he told the Netherlands-based Foreign Press Association. Some of those witnesses were from Taylor's inner circle. Some may have shared responsibility for crimes, but were not being prosecuted because the court chose to pursue only those most responsible, he said. Most of them will testify under pseudonyms to protect their identities from public disclosure, though the defense will know who they are.

Blair arrives in Sierra Leone
Guardian Unlimited – May 30, 2007
He will also see education projects there as a generation of youngsters who fought as or against rebel forces or were simply left cowering in the bush during the civil war, try to return to normal life. Britain now has only a very small number of military assistance teams left in the west African country, which is on the brink of its first election since the UN departed having restored stability. About this article Close Blair arrives in Sierra Leone This article was first published on.

Britain Backs US on Darfur Sanctions
San Francisco Chronicle – May 30, 2007
to create a resolution which will effectively address the challenges in Darfur,” he said on condition of anonymity in line with British government policy. Aides said Blair would try to build support for action to stop Darfur’s violence during his tour of Africa, which began in Libya and ends later this week in South Africa. During his half-day stop in Sierra Leone, Blair was to be crowned a chief in a traditional ceremony to show gratitude for the deployment of British troops to the country as it emerged from civil war. resolution would apply new international sanctions against the Sudanese government. It also would seek to impose an expanded embargo on arms sales to Sudan, prohibit Sudan’s government from conducting offensive military flights over Darfur and strengthen the U…
The West African country emerged that year from an 11-year civil war in which rebels overran villages and hacked off peoples’ limbs. “That timely intervention prevented more hostilities and carnage being inflicted on the people of this country,” said Septimus Kaikai. Sierra Leone has also praised Blair for moving to ensure that Liberian President Charles Taylor is tried for his role in the civil war’s atrocities. Britain said it would jail Taylor if a U. -backed tribunal in The Hague convicts him of war crimes, an offer that allowed the trial to proceed. The charges against Taylor stem from his alleged arming and training of rebels in Sierra Leone, which neighbors Liberia, during the later years of the insurgency.