THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Dutch timber trader Guus Kouwenhoven was convicted on Friday as an accessory to war crimes for selling weapons to Liberia's then-President Charles Taylor between 2000 and 2003 in violation of a U.N. embargo.
The 74-year-old Kouwenhoven, who denied wrongdoing, was sentenced to 19 years in prison.
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