Ian Smillie
latest news & developmentsTaylor funded and armed Sierra Leone rebels, says aide
Former Liberian president Charles Taylor funded and armed a rebel leader in neighbouring Sierra Leone, one of his top aides told a United Nations-backed war crimes court on…
Taylor trial resumes with tales of brutality
A blood-diamond expert and an account from a Sierra Leonean miner who said laughing rebels hacked off his hands and burned his family opened the war-crimes trial against…
War-crimes trial of Charles Taylor resumes
The war-crimes trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor, accused of controlling militia that killed and raped thousands in Sierra Leone, resumed on Monday in The Hague…