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Naomi Campbell, Mia Farrow to testify at Taylor trial

By ASSOCIATED PRESS

JUNE 30, 2010 21:11

Naomi Campbell and actress Mia Farrow will be summoned to testify at former Liberian President Charles Taylor's war crimes trial, addressing allegations Taylor gave the supermodel an uncut diamond at a South African reception in 1997.

The Special Court for Sierra Leone granted a request Wednesday by prosecutors to call Campbell and Farrow, along with Carole White, who was Campbell's agent at the time. It is not yet clear when their summons will be issued.

The prosecution hopes the women's testimony will support its claims that Taylor dealt in "blood diamonds" when he supported rebels in neighboring Sierra Leone during the 1991-2002 civil war, which Taylor denies.

In a written statement to the court, Farrow said Campbell told her that two or three men woke her up and "presented her with a large diamond which they said was from Charles Taylor."

Taylor, once one of West Africa's most powerful men, is charged with 11 counts of murder, torture, rape, sexual slavery and the use of child soldiers and terrorism in his role backing rebels in Sierra Leone's 1991-2002 civil war.

An estimated 500,000 people were the victims of killings, systematic mutilation or other atrocities in that war, with some of the worst crimes committed by child soldiers who were drugged to desensitize them.

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