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War Crimes Trial Resumes for Liberia's Taylor

The war crimes trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor has resumed in the Hague.

In often gruesome testimony, a clergyman recounted a massacre of 101 men and the mutilation and murder of a small boy.

Taylor is accused of orchestrating rape, murder and mutilation and using child soldiers during the civil war in Sierra Leone. Prosecutors say he was after that country's diamond wealth.

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He is the first former African head of state to be tried by an international court.

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