The Washington Post, August 13th, 2003
THE DEPARTURE of Charles Taylor for exile in Nigeria lifts after more than a decade an albatross from the necks of war-weary and starving Liberians. Mr. Taylor, who has been officially branded an international war criminal, leaves in his wake a deteriorated nation lacking clean water, food and medicine, as well as a West African region ravaged by wars spawned by him and his henchmen in Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Guinea and Burkina Faso. During an officious, self-indulgent farewell ceremony, the pompous Mr. Taylor told the assembled crowd: "God willing, I'll be back." Liberians, quite understan...
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