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 MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) - Former President Charles Taylor's men were known for eating the hearts of their slain enemies. They decorated checkpoints with human entrails. They sliced open the stomachs of pregnant women, taking bets on the sex of the unborn child.
But as the toppled Liberian ruler heads to an international war crimes court in The Hague, Netherlands, on Monday, his supporters are erecting billboards in the capital showing him waving triumphantly next to the words: "God willing, I shall return."
The long-awaited trial of the man accused of orchestrating many acts of horror would seem to be a time of celebration in the country that witnessed many of his alleged crimes.
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