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This World - Diamonds and Justice

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International documentary series. Liberian Charles Taylor stands trial in the Hague for allegedly backing rebel soldiers in neighbouring Sierra Leone with his diamond mining profits. His charges are horrific: he is accused of using child soldiers, condoning amputations and rape and putting mining communities into poverty. But Taylor insists that he is the victim of a neo-colonial conspiracy. His ex-wife Jewel says he would be incapable of such evil, so who is Charles Taylor really?