*The statements in this article with the * symbol are the author's Alphonse Anthony Ponzillo critique. The statement with no references are copies of internet documentations.
27 April 2012
Charles Taylor Found Guilty of War Crimes in Sierra Leone
The original online version of this story incorrectly stated that the case was being handled by the International Criminal Court. The case was tried in the Special Court for Sierra Leone.
David M. Crane, a Syracuse University law professor who crafted the indictment against Taylor, acknowledged that there can be tension between the pursuit of peace versus justice. ( Los Angeles Times )
Judge Lussick said Charles Taylor was publicly involved in peace efforts while secretly financing the hostilities. The court said he received what are called blood diamonds, mined in eastern Sierra Leone. In return, he provided arms, ammunition, communications equipment and planning help to the rebels. ( Voice Of America )
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf supported the use of Child Soldiers during Charles Taylor NPFL war:Madam Sirleaf knowing full well that the NPFL was involved with the use of Child soldiers to oust the Samuel Doe administration, willfully advocated for, as well as contributed thousands of United States dollars to the cause of the NPFL.
David M. Crane, a Syracuse University law professor who crafted the indictment against Taylor, acknowledged that there can be tension between the pursuit of peace versus justice. ( Los Angeles Times )
Judge Lussick said Charles Taylor was publicly involved in peace efforts while secretly financing the hostilities. The court said he received what are called blood diamonds, mined in eastern Sierra Leone. In return, he provided arms, ammunition, communications equipment and planning help to the rebels. ( Voice Of America )
6 Arp 2012 : Editorial / [ It is important to note the print of the date. ]
-There is still a long way to go before the goal of ending impunity for crimes against humanity has been reached. ( The Guardian )
-But the prosecution failed to prove that Mr. Taylor had directly commanded the rebels responsible for the atrocities, the judges said. ( New York Times )
-Prosecutors said Mr. Taylor’s part in the devastation was motivated not by ideology, but by a quest for power and money — “pure avarice,” in the words of David M. Crane, the American prosecutor who indicted him in 2003. ( Pittsburg Post Gazette )
-Most important, it has sent a clear message to other would-be Taylors that there is no impunity. Their day of reckoning will come.( New York Times )
=He was not at the scene of the crimes, and they were not committed by Liberia’s army, which was under his command.
=While he was in a Massachusetts jail, awaiting extradition on charges of embezzling $900,000 of Liberian government money, he said, he did not escape, but
was let out with the help of the C.I.A. ( Simon Akam contributed reporting from Freetown, Sierra Leone, and Richard Berry from Paris. )
-His defense is that the money did not go to him personally, but helped buy black-market weapons to thwart a U.N. weapons embargo aimed at quelling his brutal wars against Sierra Leone and insurgent warlords in Liberia. In court testimony, Mr. Taylor said bluntly, “The country is at war. This is our remedy.”
-Mr. Taylor said he would “never, ever” have permitted atrocities. The many tales from his life, replete with details of his career as a rebel, a prisoner, negotiator and president, were followed by a large radio audience at home in Liberia and drove up his popularity.
-Mr. Taylor said he would “never, ever” have permitted atrocities. The many tales from his life, replete with details of his career as a rebel, a prisoner, negotiator and president, were followed by a large radio audience at home in Liberia and drove up his popularity.
- Presidency: Taylor won the election in a landslide, garnering 75 percent of the vote. Taylor's toughest competitor, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, collected only 10 per cent of the vote. Newly elected President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf bans the return of Charles Taylor.
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf supported the use of Child Soldiers during Charles Taylor NPFL war:Madam Sirleaf knowing full well that the NPFL was involved with the use of Child soldiers to oust the Samuel Doe administration, willfully advocated for, as well as contributed thousands of United States dollars to the cause of the NPFL.
By NICHOLAS KRISTOFAnybody know what on earth is happening in Liberia? The Truth and Reconciliation Commission there listed President Ellen Johnson as one of 52 people who should be sanctioned for committing war crimes
Taylor guilty: Liberians have mixed emotions about verdict
Liberians in the capital of Monrovia expressed sorrow and anger over Thursday's war crimes conviction of their former president Charles Taylor, who is still considered by many Liberians to be a hero.
-Well, in Liberia, you must remember, Charles Taylor was the former president. And at the time, he commanded a lot of respect and even adoration. He was
very charismatic. He would go around the country. He was extravagant, handing out wads of money wherever he went. He also made sure rice, the staple food crop in Liberia, was cheap. So, war aside, there are many who feel that life was easier with Charles Taylor in power.
( National Public Radio )- * Mr. Charles G. Taylor never committed atrocities on any civilian society. These atrocities were committed by the trained militant rebel forces of the Western Empire to recapture the mineral resources of the nations of Africa. The nations of Africa have administered and instituted their nationalized economic policies that exclude the total wealth of their natural resources to the World Bank. President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner of Argentina is experiencing the adoption of economic nationalization and Spain's promise of a possible militant reprisals. The United States, England, France, Italy and all nations that will be effected from this economic loss will support the political, economic and military campaigns to unseat Argentina President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.
* The most dominant factor to associate the Western Empire's rebuttal to the influence of Mr. Charles G. Taylor in an African nation is not related to atrocities of human value. The most dominant factor of the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Spain ( the Western Empire ) and all nations that associate their economic growth and capital gains with the economic policies and economic doctrines of the Free World Trade Bank and International Money Exchange Organizations referred to as Stock Exchanges. The capitalist system shared with the nations of the Western Empire are in a d devastating mode of non-confiscation of the monetary exchanges necessary to produce, obtain and assess their expanded capital growth rate with the omission of the nations of Africa, Middle East, and South America. The atrocities noted and recorded are factual. Every nation that is recorded to have militants that commit atrocities are not of the governing authority of any nation. ( CIA & US Special Forces have Invaded Libya and are funding and training and organizing the Benghazi Terror Gangs ! Al Jazeera finally gets one story right as they report on how Obama is violating the United Nations Arms Embargo of Libya by Arming the Benghazi Terror Gangs. "the so-called rebels".) These strategies of militant invasions are the covert and nefarious psychological and militant fronts that are necessary to recapture the properties of nations with mineral wealth. The ' atrocities ' are a valuable asset to the ' capitalist imperialist nations '. The ' capitalist imperialist nations ' measure the significance of their ' atrocities ' with their inheritance of wealth.
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