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Wed 11 Nov 2009Case full of lies, argues Taylor
Prosecutors challenged former Liberian president Charles Taylor over the circumstances of his departure from power as they opened their cross-examination yesterday at the first war crimes trial of an African leader.
Taylor (61) denies all 11 charges of instigating murder, rape, mutilation, sexual slavery and conscription of child soldiers during the intertwined wars in Liberia and Sierra Leone, in which more than 250,000 people were killed.
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