Former Liberian President Charles Taylor's Opening Statement - 15 July 2009 Part 3

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  • čas přidán 7. 07. 2014
  • Former Liberian President Charles Taylor's defence Began on the 13th July 2009, with an opening statement by Defence lawyer, Courtney Griffiths. Charles Taylor's then continued his defence statement on the 14th July 2009.
    Former Liberian President Taylor takes the stand - The Prosecutor of The Special Court vs Charles Taylor Trial - 15/07/2009

Komentáře • 104

  • @ericboxer3053
    @ericboxer3053 Před 3 lety +16

    hes no more guilty of war crimes than any other leader...no country has the right to tell another country how it should be governed

  • @mosestohnkollie500
    @mosestohnkollie500 Před rokem +8

    I like for Mr. Taylor to come back to Liberia as freed man.

  • @akeemakintunde4350
    @akeemakintunde4350 Před rokem +10

    what impresses me the most is nothing but this man's retentive memory . he recalls names, cities, events that took place 2 decades back.

    • @adangbe
      @adangbe Před rokem +2

      Do you think he's telling the full truth or lying by omission in some areas?

    • @RoyalBlue292
      @RoyalBlue292 Před rokem

      @@adangbe ,Unless you draw us across those deceptions. His memories of recollection is beyond questioning.

    • @Kenneth-ts7bp
      @Kenneth-ts7bp Před 8 měsíci +1

      Psychopaths can do that.

    • @fatimahaidara5064
      @fatimahaidara5064 Před 7 měsíci +1

      @@Kenneth-ts7bpexactly

    • @AbednegoCooper-uw4zf
      @AbednegoCooper-uw4zf Před 4 měsíci

      Yjjiuii​@@RoyalBlue292

  • @erictucker2926
    @erictucker2926 Před 5 lety +20

    Why Ellen Johnson and Tom Wowiyu are not in the Hague?
    This is why it's not good to allowed yourself to be used by the big hands...
    Good lesson to learn.

    • @mightypawa
      @mightypawa Před 2 lety +1

      that’s the big question 🙋‍♀️

    • @rovd4433
      @rovd4433 Před 2 lety +1

      You asked why Tom Wowiyu and Ellen Johnson weren't on trial in the Hague. Well, Tom wowiyu was captured and charged in the US for crimes committed by the NPFL and he was sentenced to die in jail. Tom however died in the US from coronavirus before he could begin his sentencing.
      Helen Johnson wasn't charged with any crimes committed by the NPFL because she did not play any active role militarily like Tom and Taylor did.
      Tom and Taylor were travelling all around west africa states including Libya, recruiting people to kill not just innocent Liberian but they've taken wars to neighbouring countries that was why those countries sent men to Liberia for war.
      Taylor was the main demon in the entire west Africa and since he was locked up, relative calm has been restored in that area.

    • @RoyalBlue292
      @RoyalBlue292 Před 2 lety +1

      @@rovd4433 ,Correctly written mate. I couldn't agree more! My blood brother (X soldier) in Gambia was blackmailed by Kuokoi Samba Sanyang, (after his bloody 1981 coup in Gambia) by saying there is a job offer for him in Libya. Only to be handed to Charles taylor in an aircraft from Burkina Faso to Liberia, to fight for him in the civil war. I cannot tell how many innocent people he has killed in Liberia. He was traumatised. When he came back to Gambia with many Gambians who where also fighting for Taylor, eleven of them lunch a Coup in the country in 1996, killed 15 soldiers. Two amongst them where killed and my brother was captured and sentence to dead. He was released in 2015. But his life has never been the same and never will be!

    • @rovd4433
      @rovd4433 Před 2 lety

      @@RoyalBlue292 Thank you

    • @leosaah883
      @leosaah883 Před rokem +1

      This case is about his affiliation with the RUF and the part he played in the Sierra Leone war, which Ellen and Tom had nothing to do with. It’s not about Liberia.

  • @godwingrace6024
    @godwingrace6024 Před 2 lety +8

    Why Prices Johnson is not in The Hague too???

  • @clarencemataa
    @clarencemataa Před měsícem

    Charles Taylor is one individual who inspires me coz of his courage

  • @HumbleAfrican1847
    @HumbleAfrican1847 Před 10 měsíci +4

    This was a whole conspiracy against this man, yes he did bad things but he shouldn’t be in prison for what happened in Sierra Leone. He should be charged for what happened in Liberia, and so many others like Ellen, Prince Johnson and all these guys.

    • @ndrikouadiodavid2383
      @ndrikouadiodavid2383 Před 6 měsíci

      He was the man who gave weapon and ammunition to RUF ... Can you understand that ?

  • @edetmmekut809
    @edetmmekut809 Před 2 lety +6

    Very Educative,i don't no why i like stuff like this

  • @africanme117
    @africanme117 Před 3 lety +13

    Why is this man the only person in jail?

    • @mbyegaye1123
      @mbyegaye1123 Před 3 lety +2

      very good question..... these people are not fair at alll

    • @wilfredgeorge5328
      @wilfredgeorge5328 Před 2 lety

      Because he killed innocent people and forcing children under the age 12 to carries arms

    • @africanme117
      @africanme117 Před 2 lety

      @@wilfredgeorge5328 where do you know me from? You just exposed yourself as an idiot who really does not deserve any feedback. You are a very sad person. A little tip, I wasn't in Liberia for your war that most of the people begged for!

    • @wilfredgeorge5328
      @wilfredgeorge5328 Před 2 lety

      I just letting all the Taylor loyalists know that his aims was to destabilized the south regions and take the seat of his presidency forever

    • @Beauty4Ashes578
      @Beauty4Ashes578 Před 7 měsíci

      Taylor should be in jail especially for the atrocities committed in Liberia 🇱🇷. But so should all the other war lords such as Prince Johnson, Ellen too and the rest period point blank.
      It still baffles me that Prince Johnson is a politician in Liberia 🇱🇷 now or he was lol 😂 that’s absolutely hilarious and disgusting 🤮

  • @vonerorichards7817
    @vonerorichards7817 Před 4 lety +3

    This is so interesting learning about my country from his point of view . Where is part 4? I wanna know how him and prince Johnson linked . Btw HBD Ghankay

  • @abubacarrmanneh4332
    @abubacarrmanneh4332 Před 9 měsíci

    Where can I get part 4

  • @user-ff4no7hz3w
    @user-ff4no7hz3w Před 3 měsíci +1

    The Great US, pls, pls release Charles Taylor, Formal President of Liberia under certain condition.

  • @wilfredgeorge5328
    @wilfredgeorge5328 Před 2 lety +3

    Because he was a rebel leader with military tactics

  • @user-fp8lt6ks4d
    @user-fp8lt6ks4d Před rokem +1

    God is in control my amazing former president

  • @PruhZack231
    @PruhZack231 Před 2 měsíci

    Wow!

  • @mannahkanneh5821
    @mannahkanneh5821 Před 6 měsíci

    Hmmmmm this Charles Taylor. He has men in Libya, Cote D'Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Liberia, Sierra Leone 🇸🇱. Wow so unbelievable.

  • @danjimmyyakubu5231
    @danjimmyyakubu5231 Před 5 měsíci

    Mr Taylor was a Brilliant man

  • @user-yr7vv5ef9g
    @user-yr7vv5ef9g Před 5 měsíci

    I love this My former president Charles G Taylor

  • @user-ff4no7hz3w
    @user-ff4no7hz3w Před 3 měsíci

    I have questions in Prince Y. Johnson's explainàtioñ.

  • @ceceliajohnson66
    @ceceliajohnson66 Před 7 měsíci +1

    You killed your own people for foolishness

  • @frankjackson6350
    @frankjackson6350 Před 2 lety +1

    who let the boggie out of prison to go and burned down his own country

  • @msimelelo1000
    @msimelelo1000 Před 7 lety

    ANC was not there it was PAC of Azania

    • @ptatosh
      @ptatosh Před 5 lety +1

      Some prominent Members of the ANC arm wing were there too. That's why president Nelson Mandela later visited Libya personally to thank Quadaffi for his support.

    • @wilfredgeorge5328
      @wilfredgeorge5328 Před 2 lety

      Taylor became president but he was still doing secret killing, he killed Enoch Dorgolah, Sam Dokie, Jackson F. Doe,Patrick Buddle and so many top nimbians and other tribes

  • @mannahkanneh5821
    @mannahkanneh5821 Před 6 měsíci

    Charles Taylor was indeed guilty 😭

  • @SajumahCooper
    @SajumahCooper Před 4 měsíci

    We need our former president back Charles Taylor in to Liberia united state pls we need he back we don't have problem with he pls America

  • @chaneldiane8611
    @chaneldiane8611 Před 2 lety +1

    It appears to me That Mr Taylor raises some very valid points. But ! I suppose those were the days the ICC much like the waning ECHR had no other standing authority as a challenge.

  • @user-fk1sh1of8r
    @user-fk1sh1of8r Před 7 měsíci

    This same Ellen Johnson Sirleaf former president of Liberia 🇱🇷 signed for you to go in heads Holland 🇳🇱.

  • @sisqosylva
    @sisqosylva Před 2 lety

    Gambians were instrumental in mataba

  • @user-pe7ti3yj6o
    @user-pe7ti3yj6o Před 3 měsíci

    2024

  • @HamiltonKandulu-iq7ow
    @HamiltonKandulu-iq7ow Před 5 měsíci

    Mr. Taylor was a brilliant man with a photographic memory ❤

  • @SlammingSamable
    @SlammingSamable Před 2 lety +3

    Taylor at times can become so painful to listen to. Can’t seem to comprehend what in his case would have been a military philosophy to follow.

    • @RoyalBlue292
      @RoyalBlue292 Před 2 lety +2

      He is simply answering questions being asked. What's painful with it?

    • @SlammingSamable
      @SlammingSamable Před 2 lety

      @@RoyalBlue292 , hi A Ch! seeing him struggling to find appropriate answers to questions and in the process incriminating himself more and more before a highly prejudiced jury is what I find painful.

  • @paulharris8429
    @paulharris8429 Před 11 měsíci

    😂

  • @DanielNyakomah
    @DanielNyakomah Před 5 měsíci

    Hi

  • @satemmara5499
    @satemmara5499 Před 3 lety

    No goog

  • @peacepeace5788
    @peacepeace5788 Před 2 lety +2

    I wish I can support this guy for being sent to this court meanwhile western president has so much blood in thr hand, but he’s evil and not innocent at all he deserves it

  • @emmanuelpaye227
    @emmanuelpaye227 Před 3 lety +1

    I need Mr Taylor back

  • @NicholasVorledorme
    @NicholasVorledorme Před 2 měsíci

    Please free him

  • @yardhasmonah7873
    @yardhasmonah7873 Před 9 lety +10

    Why disturbing this great apanafrican man?

    • @aliduk2426
      @aliduk2426 Před 8 lety +1

      +Yard Hasmonah Are you Mano or Gio ? this your so called apanafrican man killed all you educated people like jackson f Doe, Sam Dorkee , his vice was beating to death, killed all good people fromnimba your home town LOL ha ha ha,,,

    • @thomasthompson3750
      @thomasthompson3750 Před 7 lety +2

      Why is it that the court is still holding Mr Taylor in jail? people who have committed the worst atrocity are in power and embezzling public fund.pls release Mr Taylor becuz he is innocent.

    • @filibertobarrera3839
      @filibertobarrera3839 Před 6 lety +1

      Yard Hasmonah this man kiddaped 10 thousand kids ,killed their parents.Gave 12 year olds assult weapons and releases all those young thugs on the citizens of liberian.It was the biggest massacre in history of africa. He is a monster.

    • @wilfredgeorge5328
      @wilfredgeorge5328 Před 2 lety

      His hands full of blood

    • @wilfredgeorge5328
      @wilfredgeorge5328 Před 2 lety

      The court holding this man for the terrible killing he did in his so called revolution!!!!!

  • @abrahamnkansah6337
    @abrahamnkansah6337 Před rokem

    Mr Taylor, pls continue to enjoy ur prison in the UK because the jails there r very comfortable 🤣🤣😜

  • @fayiajusu7558
    @fayiajusu7558 Před 8 lety

    Bbc news

  • @shaqeeuthuman9930
    @shaqeeuthuman9930 Před 8 lety +9

    in my opinion Mr#taylor was tru panafricanist he shud be one out of white man jail

    • @waltertheballer14
      @waltertheballer14 Před 2 lety +3

      So he isn't partly responsible for the death of many in his country? When does Pan-Africanism involved the killing of other Afrikans?