Advocates of
international justice rejoiced this past Thursday, as some justice has been
delivered to the former leader of the war-torn Liberia
After being on
trial for almost five years, the Special Court for Sierra
Leone (SCSL) found Taylor
guilty on 11 counts including terrorism, rape, slavery, use of child
soldiers and other crimes against humanity. This verdict is significant not
only being it represents the first head of state that has been convicted for atrocities
that occurred in Sierra Leone during the civil war of the 1990s, but also as
Taylor is the first head of state to be convicted of sexual crimes by an international
tribunal.
