Charles Taylor
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Charles McArthur Taylor (born 28 January 1948) is a Liberian former politician and convicted war criminal who served as Liberia's 22nd President from 1997 to his resignation on August 11, 2003.
He eventually arrived in Libya, where he was trained as a guerrilla fighter after being released for embezzlement.
He returned to Liberia in 1989 as the head of a Libyan-backed resistance group, the National Patriotic Front of Liberia, to overthrowrown the Doe government, launching the First Liberian Civil War (1989–96).
Taylor took over a large portion of the country and became one of Africa's most popular warlords.
Taylor was elected president in 1997 general election after a peace deal ended the war, and he was accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity as a result of his service in the Sierra Leone Civil War (1991–2002).
Opposition to his government grew within the Second Liberian Civil War (1999-2003).
Taylor had regained control of a large area of the countryside by 2003 and was formally indicted by the Special Court for Sierra Leone.
He resigned as a result of rising international pressure and went into exile in Nigeria this year.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the newly elected President, had officially requested his extradition in 2006.
He was apprehended by UN agents in Sierra Leone and then at the Hague Penitentiary Institution, awaiting the Special Court's verdict.
He was found guilty of all eleven charges levied by the Special Court in April 2012, including terror, murder, and rape.
Taylor was sentenced to 50 years in jail in May 2012.
"The accused has been found guilty of assisting and abetting, as well as planning some of the most horrific and violent crimes in recorded human history," Presiding Judge Richard Lussick said in his sentencing briefing.
Early life
Taylor was born in Arthington, a town near Monrovia, Liberia's capital, on January 28, 1948, to Nelson and Yassa Zoe (Louise) Taylor. In his early years, he attended The Newman School. Later on, he adopted the name "Ghankay" in an attempt to please and win over indigenous Liberians. His mother was a member of the Gola ethnic group, making up 95% of Liberia's residents. His father, according to the majority, was an Americo-Liberian who served as a tutor, sharecropper, advocate, and judge.
Taylor earned a degree at Bentley College in Waltham, Massachusetts, United States, in 1977.