Q&A: Charles Taylor on trial
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Liberia's former President Charles Taylor is beginning a 50-year jail sentence on charges of aiding and abetting war crimes during the brutal civil war in neighbouring Sierra Leone.
He is the first former head of state to be convicted of war crimes by an international court since the Nuremburg trials of Nazis after World War II.
Who is Charles Taylor?
What was he convicted of?
Did the Sierra Leone conflict affect other countries too?
How did the trial come about?
Why was the trial held in The Hague?
Why did supermodel Naomi Campbell appear at the trial?
What happens next?
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