Communicating Justice

October 26, 2009
The Former Liberian President Charles Taylor has again vigorously denied being responsible for the killing of the Sierra Leone rebel commander, Sam Bockarie. At the resumption of his trial in The Hague after a three-week break, Mr Taylor said he looked on Bockarie – who was murdered in 2003 in Liberia – like a son. A number of prosecution witnesses have alleged that Bockarie was killed because he knew too much about links between Charles Taylor and the RUF rebels. BBC World Service Trust Producer Alphonsus Zeon reports from The Hague.

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October 27, 2009
The Former Liberian President Charles Taylor has again rejected allegations that he controlled key figures behind the civil war in neighboring Sierra Leone. At his trial in The Hague, Mr. Taylor said suggestions that he ordered the RUF Commander, Sam Bockarie to return to Liberia from another rebel war in Cote d`Ivoire would have been a silly idea. He also dismissed claims that he sent diamond mining machine to Sierra Leone. Adolphus Williams reports from The Hague.

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October 28, 2009
The former Liberian president, Charles Taylor, has rejected prosecution evidence that he did a deal with the RUF commander, Foday Sankoh, in the summer of 1992 over heavy weapons. Last year, a former RUF radio operator testified that Sankoh gave Mr Taylor a heavy artillery cannon captured from ECOMOG troops in Sierra Leone. Mr Taylor said there was no deal between the two over weapons at that time. For more on this, Adolphus Williams report from the Hague.

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October 29, 2009
Charles Taylor has again rejected Prosecution testimony that he exercised control over the RUF to the extent that he decided between Sam Bockarie and Issa Sessay who should succeed Foday Sankor when confusion erupted between Bouckarie and Sessay. Mr. Taylor said reference to the order for Bockarie to leave the rebel headquarters in Buedu and go to Monrovia was part of the ECOWAS initiative to speed-up the peace process in Sierra Leone. BBCWST producer Alphonsus Zeon reports from The Hague.

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October 30, 2009
The Court does not sit on Fridays