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A Perspective on Justice in Sierra Leone: Nine Pictures About Charles Taylor

A Perspective on Justice in Sierra Leone: Nine Pictures About Charles TaylorA Perspective on Justice in Sierra Leone: Nine Pictures About Charles TaylorA Perspective on Justice in Sierra Leone: Nine Pictures About Charles TaylorA Perspective on Justice in Sierra Leone: Nine Pictures About Charles TaylorA Perspective on Justice in Sierra Leone: Nine Pictures About Charles TaylorA Perspective on Justice in Sierra Leone: Nine Pictures About Charles TaylorA Perspective on Justice in Sierra Leone: Nine Pictures About Charles TaylorA Perspective on Justice in Sierra Leone: Nine Pictures About Charles TaylorA Perspective on Justice in Sierra Leone: Nine Pictures About Charles Taylor

Charles Taylor, the former President of Liberia, has been convicted by an international tribunal in the Hague for aiding and abetting war crimes and crimes against humanity in Sierra Leone. Ten years after the cessation of violence there, Sierra Leone, now a democracy, is still a dismembered place: its youth has been wasted, its resources ravaged.  Nevertheless, though there remains much to do for Sierra Leone, and much it has to do for itself, its call for justice has been answered, even if in part, hazily.

Whether the guilty verdict delivered against Taylor furthers the cause of justice against war crimes in Sudan, Darfur as elsewhere, remains to be seen.

 

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Faheem Haider

Faheem Haider is a political analyst, writer and artist. He holds advanced research degrees in political economy, political theory and the political economy of development from the London School of Economics and Political Science and New York University. He also studied political psychology at Columbia University. During long stints away from his beloved Washington Square Park, he studied peace and conflict resolution and French history and European politics at the American University in Washington DC and the University of Paris, respectively.

Faheem has research expertise in democratic theory and the political economy of democracy in South Asia. In whatever time he has to spare, Faheem paints, writes, and edits his own blog on the photographic image and its relationship to the political narrative of fascist, liberal and progressivist art.

That work and associated writing can be found at the following link: http://blackandwhiteandthings.wordpress.com