Charles Taylor
Charles Taylor
Liberian politician who was the 22nd President of Liberia, serving from 1997 until his resignation in 2003. He was sentenced to 50 years imprisonment in 2012 for committing crimes against humanity during the Sierra Leone Civil War and the Second Liberian Civil War.
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth28 January 1948
CityArthington, Liberia
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My leaving office is dependent on two factors: one, my willingness to do so, and secondly, the presence of an international force that will stabilize the situation in the country as I depart,
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I see myself as contributing significantly to what happens hereafter, ... One would want me, former head of state of Liberia, to participate in a smooth landing of the entire transitional process. So I hope that I can help in whatever way that I can.
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I've been through about 12 hurricanes in Louisiana and nothing was ever this bad,
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So my leaving from office is not dependent on the arrival or the departure of the Americans,
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I will then proceed to exercise the invitation granted to me by the president of Nigeria.
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We the undersigned Liberians, Nigerians, Sierra Leoneans, other Africans and international organizations are calling on President Obasanjo to immediately end his government's persecution of human rights campaigners, reassure Liberians and all Africans that Charles Taylor will not, shall not and cannot be allowed to subvert the collective will of ECOWAS, African Union and the World Community,
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There are other issues about how I got here.
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I did not and could not have committed those acts against the sister republic of Sierra Leone. I think this is an attempt to continue to divide and rule the people of Liberia and Sierra Leone. So most definitely I am not guilty.
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We found that when we separate the two (sexes) the boys tend to pay more attention.
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While U.N. personnel are being held hostages, any continuation of attack against the RUF could place the U.N. personnel at risk,
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It was not President Bush that made the call on me to step down before I decided to step down,
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What should have died along with communism is the belief that modern societies can be run on a single principle, whether that of planning under the general will or that of free-market allocations.
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Little countries do not have this luxury of defending themselves. We have to do it before the fact, not after the fact
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[E]ach of our voices has something unique to say. Not only should I not mold my life to the demands of external conformity; I can't even find the model by which to live outside myself. I can only find it within.