U.N. Approves Taylor Trial Transfer
Nji Che - All Headline News Contributor New York, NY (AHN) - The United Nations Security Council has agreed that former Liberian President Charles Taylor be tried at The Hague. The decision comes one day after Britain agreed to jail the former warlord if convicted for war crimes. Britain announced it was ready to jail Taylor after many European Union members declined to host him in their prison cells. Taylor has already denied 11 of the war crimes charges. A Thursday night BBC news report quoted British Foreign Minister Margaret Beckett saying, "I was delighted to be able to respond positively to the request of the United Nations Secretary General, that, should he be convicted, Charles Taylor serves his sentence in the UK." Taylor who was held at the border between Nigeria and Cameroon was immediately transferred to Liberia. He is currently held by a U.N.-backed tribunal in Sierra Leone. Before the U.N. approval, UK's minister for Africa told Reuters, "We believe that this is a really strong - probably the strongest signal you could send anywhere in Africa - that there is no impunity, that major criminals will be brought to justice and if they are sentenced they will serve their time."
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