Source: news24.com
The Special Court for Sierra Leone on Monday rejected the request by the defence team for a partial or complete acquittal of the charges of war crimes brought against former Liberian president Charles Taylor.
Speaking in the court in The Hague on Monday, the judges, however, said there was sufficient evidence.
Chief Prosecutor Rapp has witnesses who provided information about murder, rape and the cutting off of people’s limbs during Sierra Leone’s civil war in the late 1990s.
There are also witnesses who told how Taylor, when he was president of Liberia, planned the war crimes together with Sierra Leonean rebels.
