Excellent: Justice ends Taylor's brutal Liberian era

CHARLES TAYLOR behaved with the swagger of a natural showman and the cruelty of a bloodstained warlord during his heyday in Liberia.

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Anything seemed possible during that surreal era, except the idea that, one day, he would face justice.

One moment Taylor would be inviting himself on to the BBC World Service, hijacking the airwaves to deny arming Sierra Leone's rebels; the next, he would be posing on a throne, surrounded by supplicants. And all the while, he was pillaging Liberia, butchering his enemies and stoking a civil war in neighbouring Sierra Leone.

By the time he was overthrown in 2003, Monrovia was probably the only capital in the world with no publicly provided electricity or water. But the once unimaginable came to pass yesterday.

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Excellent: Justice ends Taylor's brutal Liberian era

Excellent: Justice ends Taylor's brutal Liberian era

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