Charles Taylor (1948) was born in the suburb of Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, and is a descendant of black Americans.
From 65438 to 0984, Taylor was wanted for corruption and fled to the United States. In May of the same year, the Boston Police Department arrested him. From 65438 to 0985, Taylor successfully escaped from the heavily guarded American prison and went to Ghana, Burkina Faso, C? te d 'Ivoire and other West African countries for activities.
Later, Taylor returned to Liberia with his own armed forces and was involved in the civil war. 1997, Taylor became the first democratically elected president of Liberia. However, he not only did not stop the civil war in this country, but also provoked a 10 civil war in neighboring Sierra Leone, which killed 200,000 people. Civil strife and tribal vendettas in Chad and Cameroon were also taken care of by him. Under his rule, Liberia has fallen from the richest country in sub-Saharan Africa to one of the poorest countries in the world, with a per capita GDP of only 140 USD and an unemployment rate as high as 80%.
Taylor stepped down in August 2003 and went into exile in Nigeria as part of the peace agreement to end the civil war in Liberia. Later, the United Nations Special Court for Sierra Leone charged Taylor with 17 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity. At the beginning of March this year, the new Liberian government formally requested the extradition of Taylor. Under the pressure of the international community, the Nigerian Presidential Palace agreed to extradite Taylor, but he disappeared mysteriously one day later and was arrested dramatically one day later.