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Human Rights Groups Launch Fresh Initiatives to Compel FG to Extradite Charles Taylor

TWO international human rights organisation's London based Amnesty International and Washington based Human Rights Watch have launched fresh initiatives to force the Federal Government to extradite Warlord Charles Taylor for prosecution by the International Criminal Court.

Human Rights Watch in a statement by the director of its international justice programme Richard Dicker asked the UN Security Council to back efforts to bring the former Liberian President to trial in Sierra Leone to ensure justice in troubled West Africa.

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