Charles Taylor Disappears

Charles Taylor Disappears

As some human rights activists had feared, former Liberian President Charles Taylor has disappeared from his villa in Nigeria, just days after Nigeria agreed to turn him over to the new Liberian government and the Special International Sierra Leone court for war crimes. Nigeria is claiming they don’t know what happened, but this certainly sounds fishy.

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Charles Taylor Goes Missing

Two days after Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo agreed to new Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf’s request to extradite former President and warlord Charles Taylor to The Special Court for Sierra Leone to stand trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity,…