Charles Taylor August 8, 2009March 5, 2014 by Alpha Sesay Taylor Tells Court He Has No Secret Bank Accounts; Says He Did Not Give Orders To RUF Commander Sam Bockarie …thousand dollars, we give it to you for you and your boys to go and have a good time, may be buy some new jeans, some sneakers, that kind of…
Charles Taylor August 6, 2009March 5, 2014 by Alpha Sesay ECOMOG Peacekeepers Trained Liberians To Fight In Sierra Leone …to the conflict in Sierra Leone. “I am doing my best, there are no Liberians that I have sent to Sierra Leone, but the allegations abound,” Mr. Taylor said. “So…
Charles Taylor August 4, 2009March 5, 2014 by Alpha Sesay Taylor Dismisses Allegations Of His Hidden Wealth As Lies …time, may be buy some new jeans, some sneakers, that kind of thing,” Mr. Taylor told the court. Asked by his defense counsel whether the money was for the purchase…
Thomas Lubanga July 31, 2009September 2, 2020 by Rachel Irwin Interview with Fatou Bensouda, ICC Deputy Prosecutor …Lubanga Trial website about the controversy over sexual violence charges, the challenges of witness protection, and why victims’ participation is important. Rachel Irwin: The issue of sexual violence in Lubanga’s…
Charles Taylor July 31, 2009March 5, 2014 by Alpha Sesay Taylor Accuses The United Nations of Linking Him to Liberians Fighting In Sierra Leone …tried to stop me from being elected as president, the Liberian people did not buy the arguement, I think the word came out then that we must stop Taylor,” he…
Thomas Lubanga June 22, 2009September 2, 2020 by Charles Mukandirwa Wetemwami Voices From The Ground On The Lubanga Trial …and on the ICC’s activities. If you have some material to give to us, it would be wonderful.” Charles Mukandirwa Wetemwami is the www.lubangatrial.org liaison officer based in Goma, DRC….
Thomas Lubanga May 15, 2009September 2, 2020 by International Justice Monitor Lubanga Trial, Week 12: Age of Child Soldiers Scrutinized …Desalliers that the age-determination technique employed was the best available. Adamsbaum said she had looked at x-ray images of the witnesses-together with two other doctors, including Rey-Salmon-which the prosecution said…
Charles Taylor April 7, 2009March 5, 2014 by Alpha Sesay Defense Makes Oral Submission of No Case Answer …the accused’s act/ommission must contribute substantially to the conduct of the perpetrator. Counsel referenced a witness’s testimony that Mr. Taylor spoke to Johnny Paul Koroma via satelite phone and told…
Thomas Lubanga March 27, 2009September 2, 2020 by Meribeth Deen Historian: “Everyone Was Killing Everyone” The violence in the Ituri region of the Democratic Republic of Congo went beyond economics and ethnicity, historian Gerard Prunier told the court on Friday in the continuing trial of…
Thomas Lubanga March 26, 2009September 2, 2020 by Meribeth Deen Defense Examines Hema-Lendu Conflict …though the majority group is more powerful.” Prunier’s evidence will be posted among other filings on the website of the International Criminal Court. Biju-Duval will question Prunier again on Friday….