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Taylor was born in Arthington, a town near the capital of Monrovia, Liberia, on 28 January 1948, to Nelson, an Americo-Liberian (a member of Liberia's narrow elite, descended from African-American colonists)[9], and Bernice Taylor. He took the name "Ghankay" later on, possibly to please and gain favor with indigenous Liberians.[8]

Taylor supported the 12 April 1980 coup led by Samuel Doe, which resulted in the murder of President William R. Tolbert Jr. and seizure of power by Doe. Taylor was appointed to the position of Director General of the General Services Agency (GSA), a position that left him in charge of purchasing for the Liberian government. He was sacked in May 1983 for embezzling an estimated $1,000,000 and sending the funds to an American bank account. Taylor fled to the United States but was arrested on 21 May 1984 by two US Deputy Marshals in Somerville, Massachusetts, on a warrant for extradition to face charges of embezzling $1 million of government funds while the GSA boss.[11] In July 2009, Taylor claimed at his trial that US CIA agents had helped him escape from the maximum security prison in Boston in 1985. This was during his trial by the UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone in The Hague. The US Defense Intelligence Agency confirmed that Taylor first started working with US intelligence in the 1980s but refused to give details of his role or US actions, citing national security.[13][14]

Taylor escaped the United States undetected. Shortly thereafter, he resurfaced in Libya where he took part in guerrilla training under Muammar Gaddafi, becoming Gaddafi's protégé.[15] Eventually, he left Libya and traveled to the Ivory Coast, where he founded the National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL).

In September 1990, Johnson captured Monrovia, depriving Taylor of outright victory. Johnson and his forces captured and tortured Doe to death, instigating a violent political fragmentation of the country.[17] The civil war turned into an ethnic conflict, with seven factions among indigenous peoples and the Americo-Liberians fighting for control of Liberia's resources (especially iron ore, diamonds, timber, and rubber). He was found guilty in April 2012 of all eleven charges levied by the Special Court, including terror, murder and rape.[6] In May 2012, Taylor was sentenced to 50 years in prison. Reading the sentencing statement, Presiding Judge Richard Lussick said: "The accused has been found responsible for aiding and abetting as well as planning some of the most heinous and brutal crimes in recorded human history."[7]

Taylor had extensive business dealings with American televangelist Pat Robertson during the civil war. He gave Robertson the rights to mine for diamonds in Liberia. According to two Operation Blessing pilots who reported this incident in 1994 to the Commonwealth of Virginia for investigation, Robertson used his Operation Blessing aeroplanes to haul diamond-mining equipment to his new mines in Liberia, while telling his 700 Club viewers that the planes were sending relief supplies to the victims of the genocide in Rwanda. The subsequent investigation by the Commonwealth of Virginia concluded that Robertson diverted his ministry's donations to the Liberian diamond-mining operation. Attorney General of Virginia Mark Earley blocked any prosecution of Robertson, as the relief supplies were also sent.[20]

After the official end of the civil war in 1996, Taylor ran for president in the 1997 general election. He campaigned on the notorious slogan "He killed my ma, he killed my pa, but I will vote for him."[21]

During his time in office, Taylor cut the size of the Armed Forces of Liberia, dismissing 2,400–2,600 former personnel, many of whom were ethnic Krahn brought in by former President Doe to give advantage to his people.[23] In its place, Taylor installed the Anti-Terrorist Unit, the Special Operations Division of the Liberian National Police (LNP), which he used as his own private army. During his presidency, Taylor was alleged to have been involved directly in the Sierra Leone Civil War. He was accused of aiding the rebel Revolutionary United Front (RUF) through weapon sales in exchange for blood diamonds. Taylor was charged with aiding and abetting RUF atrocities against civilians, which left many thousands dead or mutilated, with unknown numbers of people abducted and tortured. He was also accused of assisting the RUF in the recruitment of child soldiers. In addition to aiding the RUF in these acts, Taylor reportedly personally directed RUF operations in Sierra Leone.[25]

At Taylor's initial appearance before the court on 3 April 2006, he entered a plea of not guilty.[40][41]

Joseph "Zigzag" Marzah, a former military commander, testified that Charles Taylor celebrated his new-found status during the civil war by ordering human sacrifice, including the killings of Taylor's opponents and allies that were perceived to have betrayed Taylor, and by having a pregnant woman buried alive in sand.[51] Marzah also accused Taylor of forcing cannibalism on his soldiers in order to terrorize their enemies.[52]

Taylor was convicted of the following 11 charges:[61]
Count Crime Type Ruling
Terrorising the civilian population and collective punishments
1 Acts of terrorism WC Guilty
Unlawful killings
2 Murder CAH Guilty
3 Violence to life, health and physical or mental well-being of persons,
in particular murder
WC Guilty
Sexual violence
4 Rape CAH Guilty
5 Sexual slavery and any other form of sexual violence CAH Guilty
6 Outrages upon personal dignity WC Guilty
Physical violence
7 Violence to life, health and physical or mental well-being of persons,
in particular cruel treatment
WC Guilty
8 Other inhumane acts CAH Guilty
Use of child soldiers
9 Conscripting or enlisting children under the age of 15 years into armed forces or groups,
or using them to participate actively in hostilities
VIHL Guilty
Abductions and forced labor
10 Enslavement CAH Guilty
Looting
11 Pillage WC Guilty

Taylor appealed against the verdict, but on 26 September 2013 Appeals Chamber of the Special Court confirmed his guilt and the penalty of 50 years in prison. On 15 October 2013 he was transferred to British custody, and began serving his sentence at HM Prison Frankland in County Durham, England.[67][68] Taylor's attorneys filed a motion to have him transferred to a prison in Rwanda,[69] but in March 2015 the motion was denied and he was ordered to continue serving his sentence in the United Kingdom.[70] In 2017 it was found that he had been making phone calls from the prison to provide guidance to the National Patriotic Party and threaten some of his enemies.[71]

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Taylor also has another son, a U.S. citizen named Charles McArther Emmanuel, born to his college girlfriend. Emmanuel headed the "Demon Forces", a paramilitary, anti-terrorism security unit for Charles Taylor,[2][4] [that did] "things like beating people to death, burying them alive, rape – the most horrible kind of war crimes."[4] US prosecutors also charged that the "Demon Forces" engaged in torture and attempted to silence critics of Charles Taylor. At Emmanuel's trial, Rufus Kpadeh, a former prisoner in Liberia, testified that Emmanuel's forces coerced prisoners into engaging in sexual acts while Emmanuel laughed.[2] In October 2008, Emmanuel was convicted on all three counts and sentenced to 97 years in prison.[80]