Former Liberian president Charles Taylor arrived in the Netherlands on Tuesday to face trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, airport officials said. "He arrived in Rotterdam and was picked up by officials from the Foreign Ministry," an airport official said. Taylor will be held at the ICC's Scheveningen detention unit. He faces 11 charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity for backing Sierra Leone's Revolutionary United Front rebels, whose drugged child soldiers killed, mutilated and raped civilians during the West African country's 1990s civil war.Taylor was flown in a U.N. helicopter to the country's main airport at Lungi from the compound of the U.N.-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone, which has charged him with war crimes and will conduct his trial in The Hague.
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