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Africa: East
UN warns Chuck to leave
2003-08-07
A senior UN official has warned the Liberian President Charles Taylor to leave the country while he can. Jacques Klein, the UN special representative for Liberia, warned that if Mr Taylor stayed in the country, he risked being arrested on war crimes charges.
Oooooo, the U.N.s getting pissed. Bet that’ll scare him.
If he's got an internationally recognized indictment against him, why wouldn't he be arrested anywhere he goes?
Mr Taylor appears to be preparing to leave Liberia to take asylum in Nigeria, but correspondents say he is notorious for changing his mind. He has cancelled plans to formally announce his resignation to parliament on Thursday before stepping down on Monday, his spokesman told the AFP news agency.
I knew I could count on Chuck.
However, Vanii Passewe said Mr Taylor would still hand over on Monday.
Or not, who knows?
Meanwhile, the leader of Liberia’s main rebel group says that the charges against Mr Taylor should be dropped if that would persuade him to leave the country. "We agree that charges against him could be dropped if it can bring peace to the country, if that can get him to leave Liberia," said Sekou Damate Conneh, from the Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy (Lurd) group.
"We can always kill him later."
"I mean, what's a few atrocities among warlords?"
There has been some confusion over whether Mr Taylor will step down and take up an offer of exile in Nigeria. South African President Thabo Mbeki is planning to fly to Monrovia on Monday to attend a ceremony marking the handover of power by embattled President Taylor. He said he agreed to make the trip after a request from Ghanaian President and Ecowas chairman John Kufuor. But earlier a Nigerian presidential spokesman said Mr Taylor was only willing to leave if he was promised immunity from prosecution.
"Nope. Nope. You'd have to kill me first."
"Hokay."
The UN’s Jacques Klein said his message for Mr Taylor would be: "Take the offer while it’s on the table. The warrant never goes away, and the court will be there for a number of years. So go while the getting is good, in a sense. Because remember it is the United Nations that captured the first indicted war criminal in the former Yugoslavia."
Chucky is gonna wait too long.
Posted by:Steve

#1  Chucky never learned the first lesson of vaudeville: always leave the audience wanting more, heh heh.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2003-8-7 1:33:06 PM  

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