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Man arrested in Britain for alleged war crimes in Liberia

by Maximilian K. Kasseh jr

MONROVIA, LIBERIA-British police say a man in his forties has been arrested over alleged war crimes committed during the Liberian Civil Wars.

The violence left a quarter of a million people dead.

He was arrested during a raid on a home in the city of Newcastle on suspicion of committing offences contrary to the International Criminal Court Act. The arrest of the unknown man followed a referral early last year to Britain’s Counter Terrorism Command.

The former President of Liberia, Charles Taylor, is serving a fifty-year sentence in a British prison, after being convicted of several crimes, including terrorism, rape and the use of child soldiers during the Sierra Leonean civil war  that ended in 2002.

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