Liberia: Nigeria Blunders! Lets Off War Crime Fugitive

When on June 4, 2003, the UN-backed Special Court in Sierra Leone slammed a 17-count international indictment on Charles Taylor, then a sitting president in Liberia, observers saw more than the commencement of an unprecedented, historical criminal proceedings.

They read different meaning into Accra's provision of escape route for Taylor. They saw African ruling elites recoiling in fear; they saw suspicion and cynicism being given new meaning; and they saw the rebirth of African solidarity in hegemonic protection.

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