
Picture of the Day: Freetown, Sierra Leone. A victim of the violence of the 1990 insurgency watches the trial of former Liberan president Charles Taylor for his role in arming Sierra Leone’s conflict.
News: Taylor was convicted of war crimes for his role in the insurgency that left 50,000 citizens of Sierra Leone dead in the 1990s in a landmark case by a UN-backed court.
Credit: Issouf Sanogo/AFP/Getty Images. Via.
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