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A UN-backed war crimes court sentenced Liberia’s former president Charles Taylor to 50 years’ jail Wednesday, May 30, for arming Sierra Leone rebels in return for “blood diamonds.” The former president was convicted on April 26 on all 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity for aiding and abetting Sierra Leone’s Revolutionary United Front during the country’s 1991-2001 civil war. In return, the court said, Taylor was paid in diamonds mined by slave labor in areas under control of rebels who murdered, raped and kept sex slaves while hacking off limbs and forcing children under 15 to fight.
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