Ex-Liberia President Charles Taylor Sentenced To 50 Years In Prison

Charles Taylor, the ex-Liberia president and once-feared warlord, was sentenced to 50 years in prison for war crimes committed during the civil war in Sierra Leonne in the 1990s.  The judge presiding over the case at an international criminal court in The Hague said Taylor’s crimes, which include murder, rape, sexual slavery, recruiting child soldiers, enforced amputations and pillage, were of the “utmost gravity in terms of scale and brutality.”