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The verdict in the Charles Taylor trial: guilty
They're reading it out now. So far the trial court has just found that a wide array of crimes against humanity were committed by Liberoans in Sierra Leone.<p>
ETA: and listening to this verdict I can understand why this trial took five years. Holy crap at some of the things that went on.
Re: The verdict in the Charles Taylor trial: guilty
Guilty of aiding and abetting the commission of the following crimes and planning the commission thereof:
1. Acts of Terrorism
2. Murder
3. Violence to life, health, and physical well being of persons
4. Rape
5. Sexual slavery
6. Outrages upon personal dignity
7. Same as #3 but under a different article
8. Other inhumane acts
9. Conscripting or enlisting children under 15 into armed forces
10. Enslavement
11. Pillage
One of my biglaw friends ended up working as a defense counsel for another person at this tribunal. He said it was the most disturbing year of his life, and some of the arguments he ended up making were pretty grotesque.
My friends in Liberia are all shut in their homes today. Hopefully the verdict will go over peacefully.
I wish I could unhear some of the descriptions I heard today. I'm a little worried about having dreams of human entrails being strung across the road as a road block.
Actually one of the defense arguments he concocted was that the use of human entrails in that fashion was not an act of terrorism because it was simply done because the defendant didn't have any rope...
I sometimes wonder how my friends in the Hague maintain a work life balance under these conditions!
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