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23 Nov 2008:He grew up in suburban Florida, just a few miles from Disney World. But by his early twenties, Chucky Taylor had become a brutal drug-crazed torturer. Johnny Dwyer charts his journey from ordinary jock to the most feared man in Liberia
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31 Oct 2008:
Charles McArthur Emmanuel, whose father is Charles Taylor, will be sentenced next year under law making it illegal for US citizens to commit torture abroad
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30 Sep 2008:
The Miami criminal case marks the first US prosecution of torture committed in a foreign country
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22 Sep 2008:
Charles McArthur Emmanuel, 31, is charged with inflicting and ordering the torture of prisoners
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27 May 2008:
No. For years, there have been anecdotal accounts of abuse. In 1995, UNHCR guidelines specifically acknowledged that international aid workers were implicated in sexual violence against refugees
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14 Mar 2008:
Commander in Charles Taylor's militia tells trial at The Hague that he oversaw horrific crimes while serving under the former Liberian president
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22 Feb 2008:
President's David Brent-style gyrations take US-Liberian relations to a whole new level during a visit to Monrovia
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17 Feb 2008:
George Bush touched down for the briefest of stops in the tiny west African country of Benin for the second leg of a five-nation African tour.
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13 Aug 2007: In a landmark case for justice in Africa, journalists from Liberia and Sierra Leone are covering the war crimes trial of former president Charles Taylor, writes Jon Silverman.
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30 Jul 2007: Liberia has lifted a self-imposed moratorium on the mining, sale and export of diamonds, which had been in place for six years, government officials said.
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5 Jun 2007: · Liberia's ex-leader claims he will not get fair hearing
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4 Jun 2007: Liberia's former president Charles Taylor dramatically failed to appear at the start of his trial for war crimes in The Hague today, with his British lawyer walking out of the court after a furious row with the presiding judge.
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31 Jan 2007: The UN's first women-only peacekeeping contingent - made up of about 100 Indian policewomen - arrived in Liberia yesterday, officials said.
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29 Jan 2007:
Gordon Brown is seeking to put fresh impetus behind debt relief for the world's poorest countries by pressing Britain's G8 partners to back the write-off of the $3bn (£1.53bn) owed by Liberia to its creditors.
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3 Oct 2006:
A damning report on Mittal Steel's acquisition of an impoverished African country's iron ore reserves is published today, accusing the world's largest steelmaker of offering an inequitable "raw deal" that has created an unaccountable "state within a state".
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