Issues In Perspective: Taylor May
Testify in London in Libel Case
President Charles Taylor of Liberia may have to give a personal testimony
in a libel case which his British lawyers have filed in London against the
London Times, disputing allegations that he personally engaged in cannibalism
during the Liberian civil war that took about 250,000 lives and destroyed
the West African country of 2.6 million.
Africa, The Curse of History,
and Europe's New "Benevolence"
There is now an appealing new school of thought spreading in Western Europe
which, on the surface, would make any well-meaning African jump with joy
to embrace the dawn of salvation. But it contains more ominous implications.