A state of emergency was declared by Taylor in January 2002 but by August the following year he was forced to step down and leave the country with the United Nations launching a major peacekeeping mission, however tensions between various grouping led to ongoing outbreaks of violence. In 2006 Taylor appeared before a UN backed court in Sierra Leone faced with charges of crimes against humanity and his trial ended in April 2012 with him being found guilty of all eleven charges levied against him. He was sentenced the following month to fifty years in prison. Today Liberia reflects on a fourteen year long civil war in which 250,000 lives were lost out of its then even smaller population of 3.5 million, its infrastructure destroyed, more than 50% of the population living below the poverty line, translating into roughly 2.3 million Liberians who are unable to meet their basic needs with a child mortality rate (under fives) of 84.6 deaths per 1,000 live births (although significantly down from the 284 deaths per 1,000 live births in 1970.)