TAYLOR
AMSTERDAM,(Reuters):
FORMER LIBE-RIAN president Charles Taylor has arrived in the Netherlands for his trial at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Dutch news agency ANP reported yesterday.
Taylor, who was flown in from the compound of the U.N.-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone, has been charged with war crimes. His trial is due to be held in The Hague after the United Nations Security Council on June 16 authorised his transfer.
The Freetown tribunal had asked the Nether-lands to host the case at the Inter-national Criminal Court because of security concerns, but needed a third country to volunteer as his jailer.
Britain drafted the U.N. resolution after promising last Thursday to jail Taylor, one of Africa's most feared warlords, if he is found guilty.
