Permanent year factsheet

Sierra Leone in 2008

Historical records for Sierra Leone in 2008, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.

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Historical records

January

7 January 2008TrialCharles Taylor

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

This page is generated from stored World History Database records matching the exact country and year shown above. Exact duplicate display records are collapsed. Records without a month are listed after the monthly sections. Source provenance varies by record; formal academic citation should be checked against the relevant primary source, archive or specialist historical reference.