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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - Former Liberian president Charles Taylor appeared in court Tuesday for the first time since the start of his trial for atrocities committed during Sierra Leone's bloody 10-year civil war.
Wearing a blue suit and yellow tie, Taylor appeared 20 minutes late at a procedural hearing during which judges for the U.N.-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone explained why they have agreed to postpone hearing the first prosecution witnesses until Aug. 20.
Taylor has pleaded not guilty to 11 charges that he controlled and armed rebels who murdered, raped, mutilated and enslaved civilians during Sierra Leone's civil war that ended in 2002.
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