Who among the following has been sentenced by United Nations-backed War Crimes Court for war crimes…
Charles Taylor, former President of Liberia, was convicted in April 2012 of aiding and abetting war crimes and crimes against humanity and sentenced to fifty years by the…
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Who among the following has been sentenced by United Nations-backed War Crimes Court for war crimes against humanity ?
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Charles Taylor, former President of Liberia, was convicted in April 2012 of aiding and abetting war crimes and crimes against humanity and sentenced to fifty years by the Special Court for Sierra Leone, a court set up by agreement between the United Nations and Sierra Leone.
He was the first former head of State convicted by an international criminal court since Nuremberg; the other persons named were not so sentenced.
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