Taylor showed no emotion as sentence was passed. He was elected president of
Liberia in 1997 after waging a bloody guerrilla war for eight years. He then
led a government notorious for brutality and corruption. Taylor supplied the
RUF rebels in Sierra Leone with guns and recruits in return for diamonds
illegally mined in the neighbouring country.
He was eventually overthrown in 2003 and went into exile in Nigeria, before
being handed over for trial. Taylor, a hate figure in Sierra Leone, still
has supporters in Liberia where a new government under President Ellen
Johnson-Sirleaf is trying to rebuild what was once a failed state.
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