Former Liberian President and war crimes convict Charles Taylor is requesting the Liberian government to pay his pension and other benefits “for his service to the nation.”
He is currently serving a 50-year-jail term imposed by the UN-backed Sierra Leone Special Court for war crimes.
In a letter to the Liberian legislature dated September 12 last year which was read in the Senate Tuesday, Taylor said he is entitled to benefits as a former president and requested the Senate to ensure that he receives his just benefits for the period August 2003 to 2012.
Taylor who was forced to resign his post in 2003 under international and rebel pressure was eventually convicted on April 26,
2012 of war crimes by the Special Court sitting at The Hague.
He has since lodged an appeal against the sentence.
He was tried and found guilty of supplying arms to and encouraging the rebel RUF in neighbouring Sierra Leone in a campaign of terror involving murder, amputations, rape, sexual slavery and conscription of child soldiers.
Agencies
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