African warlord Charles Taylor was sentenced to prison for 50 years today for "using so-called "blood diamonds" to fund rebels in Sierra Leone who killed and mutilated tens of thousands during that country's civil war. The presiding judge at the Special Court for Sierra Leone in the Hague said the lengthy sentence was justified because the former Liberian president had "aid[ed] and abet[ed], as well as plan[ed], some of the most heinous and brutal crimes recorded in human history."
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