Amputee is last witness against Charles Taylor

[struggle4progress]

Source: Associated Press

By MIKE CORDER
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP)

... Conteh, 59, said rebels hacked off his left hand with an ax in front of his wife and 4-year-old son. When the child screamed at them, the rebels got ready to amputate one of his hands, Conteh told judges.

"I said I would rather you cut off my second hand," he said. "I placed my hand (on a slab) and they hacked it twice" ...

Earlier this month, Taylor's son, Charles McArthur Emmanuel, was sentenced to 97 years imprisonment by a court in Miami for torturing people when he led his father's Anti-Terrorist Unit in Liberia ...

<The former Liberian president's defense lawyer Courtenay Griffiths> said that as well as seeking an immediate acquittal he will ask judges for a six-month adjournment to allow him time to travel to Africa to prepare his defense.

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[snake in the grass]

1. This is good.

What would truly make my day though would be when Bush, Cheney, and the rest of these insane criminals would receive similar sentences. They should never see the light of day again except through the bars on their very small windows.

And even that is too good for them!

[struggle4progress]

2. Support international law

[snake in the grass]

4. Indeed!

Bush knew exactly what he was doing when he pulled the U.S. out of the ICC. That shows premeditation in my opinion.

[superconnected]

3. What a brave hero! It sounds like he had his own hand cut off instead of his sons!

Those men who did that are monsters though.

[ConcernedCanuk]

5. Bush said torture was OK - what's the fuss?

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Shawk and Awe only killed a few thousand innocents

We never saw the bloodshed

So it didn't happen

right?