The President Of Liberia Who Was Indicted For Crimes Against Humanity Chris Hondros/Getty Images
By Samantha Sanders/Dec. 23, 2020 4:19 pm EDT
Since 2013, Charles Taylor, former president of Liberia and, as CNN reports, the first former head of state since WWII to be convicted of war crimes, has been imprisoned in the UK, serving a 50-year sentence. It s an ignoble end to a political career that had begun more than 30 years prior and would change the course of African history in countless ways. Despite Taylor s assertion at his sentencing that he was no threat to society, the tens of thousands of lives lost or destroyed by his actions reflect a very different reality.
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