GRAPHIC CONTENT A picture taken on Janua

GRAPHIC CONTENT A picture taken on January 22, 1999 shows people standing near abandoned corpses outside a house in Freetownafter tension mounted in the capital, where rebels still threatened some areas despite claims by the Nigerian-led ECOMOG intervention force that it had cleared the city of all insurgents. Former Liberian president Charles Taylor will be sentenced for war crimes by a UN court on May 30, 2012 after being convicted for arming Sierra Leone rebels in return for "blood diamonds". Special Court for Sierra Leone judge Richard Lussick will deliver the ruling at a hearing due to start at 0900 GMT, the first sentence against a former head of state at an international court since the Nazi trials at Nuremberg in 1946. AFP PHOTO / SEYLLOU DIALLO (Photo credit should read SEYLLOU DIALLO/AFP/GettyImages)