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Libe
ria's President Charles Taylor has asked a Dutch lawyer to
represent him before a UN-backed tribunal in Sierra Leone where he
faces war crimes charges, the lawyer said yesterday.
"Taylor has asked me to give him all the assistance necessary under
the circumstances," the lawyer, Michail Wladimiroff, said.
He added that the request was made recently but would not
elaborate.
Taylor was indicted in June by the UN Special Court in Sierra Leone
for crimes against humanity and war crimes during the decade-long
civil war in Liberia's northwestern neighbour, in which some 250
000 people lost their lives.
Taylor is also under UN sanctions, including an arms embargo, for
his perceived role in that war and alleged links to the trade in
so-called "blood diamonds" mined by the Sierra Leonean
rebels.
Wladimiroff was one of three lawyers appointed to assist judges at
the UN war crimes court in The Hague with the trial of former
Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic.
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugolavia (ICTY)
court sacked him last October after he told a local newspaper that
Milosevic would be found guilty if the trial ended right away.
– Sapa-AFP.
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