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 MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) - President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said her country does not need to prosecute former president Charles Taylor because he is already being tried by a U.N.-backed court for his role in atrocities committed in neighboring Sierra Leone.
Sirleaf has said that she is more focused on moving Liberia forward than on punishing the rebel leader who launched a bloody insurgency in 1989. She said Monday that the Sierra Leone charges could stand in for any that could be levied in Liberia.
"He doesn't need to be tried here," Sirleaf said in an interview with The Associated Press. "Let him go through the due process that has already charged him on so many counts."
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