The same court also has indicted Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir on charges including genocide for his regime’s brutal crackdown on rebels in Darfur. Al-Bashir remains at large in his country, which does not recognize the International Criminal Court.
Former Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic died of a heart attack in his cell in 2006 before his four-year genocide trial at the U.N. Yugoslav tribunal could reach a verdict.
But survivors of rebel atrocities in Sierra Leone were only concerned that the leader who fueled a war that tore apart their country had been judged.
“The whole world will know today what Charles Taylor did, and we are happy,” said Samuel Komba, who survived an attack by rebels who attempted to burn him alive and cut off his hand.
Associated Press writers Clarence Roy-Macaulay and Jessica Mcdiarmid contributed to this report from Sierra Leone.
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