long time. >> for charles taylor and michael brehm, a change in mindset and attitude is evident afterehab at pendleton. but tomorrow, staff will start all over again with the 300 teens who still remain behind bars.

and then the peace negotiations between the rebels and charles taylor, you find it's not going anywherere. we went thinking that these negotiations would take three weeks. it was going on three months, going nowhere. warlords were wearing nice suits now. they had girls massaging them, living the life that they never thought they would live. one of these days we got angry, barricaded the hall and then the security people decided to arrest me. i said i'll make it easy for you. i'll strip naked so that when you take me to prison, it will be easy for me. by the time i started taking my clothes off maybe they were afraid of what they would see, they all ran away. >> jon: that is how you got in to see charles taylor. you basically just sat there in front of the office and said, until we see this man, we're not going. >> we're not going anywhere. we want to parliament. we barricaded where they parked their cars. imagine taking over the capitol building. sometimes i think the americans need to do that, given the state of your nation. ( applause ) >> jon: we've been trying. >> you haven't been t

there was milosevic and charles taylor from liberia, but they were in different courts. he appeared before the tribunal of the former yugoslavia, and charles taylor, sperm court for sierra leone. this is the first case in which he's been brought before the i.c.c. judges. but the prosecutor says mr. gbagbo is the first to be brought to account. there is more to come. and the i.c.c. has faced criticism in its even-handedness, but mr. campo says investigations are continuing and other cases will be brought before the judges irrespective of political affiliation. that's crimes committed on both sides in ivory coast. >> we were just seeing some of the charges, including murder, persecution, rape among them. where is all the evidence coming from, peter? >> the i.c.c. has been gathering this evidence during the course of this year. this relates to the period after the elections, exactly a year ago, up until april when mr. gbagbo was taken into custody and placed under house arrest. it's quite a short period, four months at the beginning of this year when there was a lot of conf

peace, credited for being instrumental for ending the second siberia war in 1973 and removing charles taylor from power. >> i want to encourage all of you to buy this book. i'm -- she's not paying me for saying that to you, but it really is quite an extraordinary journey. it is a memoir of liberia's dissent into madness, and of your journey in it, through it, and out of it, but for right now, let us journey together across the continent of north america, across the atlantic, to the continent of africa, and in particular to liberia. america in liberia have a particular relationship, but particular history together. speak to that briefly, leymah. >> okay. thank you, thank you, all, for coming. i call my therapist because this book was a therapy. liberia is that country that free slaves from here in the u.s. in 1822, and everything about liberia is like america, so you have our flag like the u.s. flag, but with one star. our constitution modeled like the u.s. constitution. we have three branches of government like here. we call the house that our parliament meet in sit in capitol. we do, like i

it was only in 2003 when the war lord president charles taylor was forced from power that killing stopped. shortly after, the un sent in peace keepers to provide security. they are still there. in 2006, ellen johnson sirleaf was elected president. she was welcomed as a new hope for the troubled country, but she is not without her critics at home. many say she has failed to rebuild the country and defeat corruption. opponents say the spoils of reconstruction are only enjoyed by a small part of the population. ahead of the first round of voting, many questions were raised about her contacts during the civil war. >> johnson sirleaf made headlines around the world last month when she won a nobel peace prize. she was honored for strengthening the position of women. she has faced criticism for not doing enough to tackle corruption or build a basic services for the people of liberia. but for the country's women, she remains an inspiration. we have a report now on some of those who have joined her battle for equality. >> it is early morning in monrovia. >> good morning, good morning, good morning

diamonds and timber bank rolled war lord president charles taylor. >> liberia's experience in a way has been a resource curse. we've always had these natural resources. they just haven't been used well for the development of the people. >> reporter: so when president sirleaf came to power in 2006 her administration renegotiated contracts former governments had made with foreign investors. including the rubber giant firestone which for years had come under criticism for labor and environmental abuses. the new contract obtained a better share of revenues and improvements in labor and safety standards for local workers. today rubber is being tapped around the country as firestone and other international rubber companies expand their purchasing from local growers. weigh stations are doing a brisk business. how many people come per day here to bring you rubber? >> we have customers, one or two days. but now it is 2,040. it is improving. >> reporter: sirleaf's government also renegotiated the company agreement first signed in 2005. >> the new government did not like the idea that an agreement

and we had a big banner that said, the women of liberia want peace now. >> charles taylor said thosenk they can come out in the street to embarrass themselves, come out. i'm waiting for you. i said, nobody, nobody can get onto the streets to embarrass my administration. ♪ >> if you look at the frontline discussion of course, and this is what the newspapers report on, the fighting tactics, the troops, the politics, the borders, the weapons, the army sent all of those things. that is the men's story. the back line discussion of the story is, how do you actually exist and live and continue on living in war? that is the women's story and that story has never been told. >> warfare is a very different proposition in which civilians are not "max collateral damage as we once called them, but really very much in the center of the war zone. >> the ordinary civilians are the ones who feel the brunt as they watch their children die. the women are the ones raped and after conflict, when the end of the wars are being negotiated, they are never considered. >> the women say stop the violence. stop t

charles and felicia taylor and their four children will soon move into their rebuilt home. in to help. >> the whole team was out volunteering and cleaning. it really gave us some hope over in this neighborhood. it really made a difference. >> how cool was it that i can use being a football player to make somebody who is hurting so bad to smile? and by something as simple as giving them water and shaking their hands and give them a hug. >> reporter: the efforts is inspiring but as tomorrow's big football game approaches against top ranked lsu, the city of tuscaloosa faces a sobering reality. >> people are in need and this is an opportunity to remind a lot of people across the country what happened here was devastating. >> we are still rebuilding, but do not give up on us. don't forget us, because we not where we need to be. >> reporter: even as alabama's carson tinker deals with his personal grief, he says the focus is on something much bigger. do you think you take a piece of the community with you? >> oh, yeah. >> reporter: there is a sense you're still playing for tuscalo