Prosecutors have urged the Special Court for Sierra Leone to sentence former Liberian president Charles Taylor to 80 years imprisonment.
In the Prosecution Sentencing Brief, the prosecution team said that the "extreme magnitude" of the crimes warranted the lengthy jail term.
Last week, Taylor was found guilty on all 11 counts he was charged with, including murder and rape.
The brief stated Taylor "was not a simple weapons procurer or financier".
Instead, he "planned the bloodiest chapter in Sierra Leone's war - the Freetown invasion" and was instrumental in supporting the rebels in their strategy of "murders, rapes, sexual slavery, looting, child soldiers... and other forms of physical violence and acts of terror".
The sentence is expected to be passed on 30 May in The Hague.
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