Last week, two famous defendants one despised, the other adored appeared in courts over 5,000 miles apart. Charles Taylor, Liberia's former President, is on trial in the Hague for murder, rape, torture and other war crimes allegedly committed during the decade-long conflict in Sierra Leone. Taylor used his first appearance on the stand to dismiss the charges as "disinformation, misinformation, lies, rumors."
Meanwhile, and much more convincingly, Aung San Suu Kyi was declaring her innocence before a court...
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