Charles Taylor, the former president of Liberia, has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for war crimes committed in Sierra Leone.
Passing sentence at the Special Court for Sierra Leone in The Hague on Wednesday, judge Richard Lussick said that Taylor had "been found responsible for aiding and abetting some of the most heinous crimes in human history".
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