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NextReformation (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Charles Taylor interview on the New Atheism: The Other Journal (TOJ): I want to ask you about your thoughts on atheism in general, and explore what you have to say about atheism at the end of A Secular Age.1 I’m referring in particular to what you say on pages 768-69 of A Secular Age, where you [...]
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Charles Taylor today accused Britain of transporting arms to Sierra Leone in violation of a United Nations arms embargo on the country, and of using him as a scapegoat by falsely accusing him of responsibility for the flow of arms into the country. Mr. Taylor also denied widespread press and investigative reports that the terrorist group, Al Qaeda, traded diamonds with Sierra Leonean rebels under his...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Charles Taylor did not order the execution of Sierra Leonean rebel commander Sam Bockarie, but rather sent his former vice president Moses Blah to arrest him on the Liberian border with Ivory Coast, the accused former Liberian president told Special Court for Sierra Leone judges in The Hague today.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Former Liberia President Charles Taylor who is being tried by the UN-back court for Sierra Leone in The Hague for crimes he allegedly committed in the neighbouring country, has confessed to sending fighters to help rebels inflict mayhem on civilians during the 11-year war in the country.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Charles Taylor today accused the prosecution of "misleading the court" by introducing evidence that as Liberian president, Mr. Taylor acted to resolve conflicts between Sierra Leone's rebel commanders, appoint a chief rebel leader in his warring neighboring country, and then independently offer safe haven in Liberia to a top rebel on the run. Mr. Taylor is on trial by the Special Court for...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
In a surprising move, Charles Taylor today reinforced the truthfulness of his former vice president's testimony against him last year, but dismissed the evidence of a Liberian journalist as full of "lies" and "exaggeration."
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Big Cat News (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Although a UN group, headed by former Kenyan Attorney General Amos Wako, concluded that infamous Cater Camp Massacre in Fireston was the work of soldiers of the Armed Forced of Liberia, the TRC has disputed the findings, saying rebels to Mr. Charles Taylor executed the masscre.
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JURIST (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
[JURIST] Justice Jon Kamanda was elected on Monday to a one-year term as the president of the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL). Kamanda had served as a SCSL vice-president since 2007. Prior to his involvement with the SCSL, Kamanda enjoyed an extensive legal career, including time in the Sierra Leone government as the Deputy Minister of Mineral Resources and Minister of Health. Kamanda succeeds...
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Counterterrorism Blog (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Today's Washington Post has an interesting article on how the North Korean military is now the primary extractive body of the North Korean establishment, and is, in fact, relatively efficient at extracting natural resources to sell to China and elsewhere. It is an important piece because it highlights a much broader reality that we have been slow to come to grips with. In almost any index of failed...
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Habermasian Reflections (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Audio with Jürgen Habermas, Charles Taylor, Judith Butler & Cornel West from the conference on " Rethinking Secularism: The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere " (New York University, October 22, 2009): Here The link courtesy of Thomas
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Bigthink - Site Features Feed (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Radovan Karadzic is making a mockery of efforts to strengthen courts’ ability to try and prosecute accused war criminals. Karadzic faces charges of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, all of which left 100,000 dead in the 1993-1995 war. Yet he has failed to show up when the trial started, claiming he required more time to prepare his defense. Um, he had thirteen years. Is that...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Charles Taylor did not have a "master-servant" relationship with Sierra Leone's notorious rebel commander Sam Bockarie ("Mosquito"), the former Liberian president told Special Court for Sierra Leone judges in The Hague today.
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JURIST (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
[JURIST] Eight men judged guilty of war crimes by the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) were transferred to Rwanda Saturday to serve out prison sentences. Because Sierra Leone has no adequate prison facilities, an agreement with Rwanda was reached to allow them to complete their sentences at Mpanga prison. Three of the men, leaders of the Revolutionary United Front, had had their appeals rejected...