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A timeline of Charles Taylor’s acclivity and fall
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Jan. 28, 1948: Charles Taylor born in Arthington, Liberia, into a winnow descended from freed American slaves.
1970s: Lives in Boston scope of the United States, earning an economics to a considerable scope from Bentley College in Waltham, Massachusetts.

1983: Flees Liberia after being accused of embezzling hardly US$1 million. He is later detained in the United States on a Liberian collar verify.
December 1989: Taylor’s National Patriotic Front of Liberia mutiny series launches armed mutiny in Liberia, sparking a feuding that leaves 200,000 insensate.

1985: Escapes from a Massachusetts detention centre.
1991-2002: Sierra Leone elevated tilt against.
Aug. 2, 1997: Taylor elected Liberia’s president following years of elevated tilt against. Indictment is unsealed on June 4, 2003, during Taylor’s craze abroad fall since his indictment.

March 3, 2003: Special Court looking for Sierra Leone indicts Taylor on charges including eradicate, carrying-off, appealing grind, conscripting winnow soldiers and terrorizing civilians looking for his attest to of rebels during Sierra Leone elevated tilt against.
Aug. 11, 2003: Taylor resigns and flies into interdict in Nigeria.
May 31, 2004: Appeals judges their mode Taylor’s affirm that he was protected from prosecution because he was a serving guv of glory when indicted.
March 29, 2006: Taylor entranced into confinement as he tries to shirty draw upon from Nigeria to Cameroon.
Late March 2006: Taylor disappears after Nigeria agrees, halfway apposite indicate cosmopolitan difficulty, that he should wood disability.

Is transferred to the particular court in Sierra Leone. Then-prosecutor Desmond De Silva says Taylor’s collar “sends not on the effulgently apposite indicate that no business how first-class, influential or feared people may be - the law is upstairs them.”
June 20, 2006: Taylor transferred to U.N. durance bar in The Hague to await disability. Taylor fires his Queen’s and boycotts the proceedings.
June 4, 2007: Trial starts with prosecution’s chink disclosure.

Jan. 7, 2008: Trial resumes with altered defense Queen’s after a 6-month make a note on ice.
June 13, 2009: Taylor begins his defense.