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Trial

Sierra Leone · Warfare / Civil War. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

2008

Charles Taylor7 January 2008

Warfare / Civil War

The trial of Charles Taylor, charged with crimes against humanity for supporting rebel troops in Sierra Leones brutal civil war that claimed the lives of about 300,000 people in the 1990s, resumes at the Hague

Names involved

Charles Taylor

Provenance

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