Charles Taylor is a Fucking Asshole

(Another Charles Taylor related post.  Scroll down for background of my hatred for this excuse for a human) Ok Naomi, you better tell the truth.  I don't care that you didn't want to be involved, you have the power to help, at least slightly, give emotional relief to hundreds of thousands in Liberia and Sierra Leone so tell the whole story and bury that fucker and his dirty diamond fueled bullshit.  Charles Taylor deserves to rot in prison with photos of the murdered and raped and limbless women and children suffering in the pain he caused.  All with bright spotlight 24hours a day, behind plexiglass so he cannot take them down.  Fuck you Charles Taylor, your not guilty plea is insulting to my very being.  Rabble-B

Naomi Campbell will testify in war crimes trial Thursday

By the CNN Wire Staff

August 4, 2010 1:16 p.m. EDT

Naomi Campbell did not want to be involved in the trial but was subpoenaed July 1.

(CNN) -- A judge in the war crimes trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor has decided that supermodel Naomi Campbell's testimony in the case will go ahead Thursday.
The Special Court of Sierra Leone confirmed to CNN Wednesday that Campbell will take the stand at the tribunal, despite an emergency motion the defense filed Monday to delay her testimony.
Prosecutors say Taylor gave Campbell a diamond during the war in Sierra Leone, contradicting Taylor's testimony that he never handled the precious stones that fueled the conflict.
The defense said it hadn't seen a copy of Campbell's testimony, which interferes with Taylor's right to a fair trial. Under tribunal rules, the defense team should get advance access to prosecution witness testimony so it can prepare its arguments. Prosecutors said they have not obtained a statement from Campbell, but they did provide a copy of her anticipated testimony to the defense.
Prosecutors had rested their case against Taylor in February 2009, but reopened it specifically to call Campbell to testify after learning in June of that year that Taylor had given the supermodel a diamond in South Africa in 1997. Prosecutors said they also wanted to call actress Mia Farrow and a witness named Carole Taylor to testify, court papers show.
Prosecutors have said that Farrow confirmed that Taylor gave Campbell a diamond.
When arguing to reopen the case, prosecutors said Campbell's testimony would prove that the former president "used rough diamonds for personal enrichment and arms purchases," according to papers filed with the U.N.-backed court.
Campbell did not want to be involved in the trial but was subpoenaed July 1.
Taylor, 62, was president of Liberia from 1997 to 2003. The war crimes charges against him stem from the widespread murder, rape and mutilation that occurred during the civil war in Sierra Leone. It was fought largely by teenagers who were forced to kill, given addictive drugs to provoke violent behavior, and often instructed to rape and plunder.
Taylor is charged with five counts of crimes against humanity, including murder, sexual slavery and violence, and enslavement.
He also faces five counts of war crimes, including acts of terrorism and torture, and one count of other serious violations of international humanitarian law.

He has pleaded not guilty.