|
|
|
Lawyers wrap up Int'l Court's first trial
Law Firm News |
2011/08/25 08:57
|
div class=entrydiv class=articlepProsecutors began wrapping up the International Criminal Court's landmark first trial on Thursday by urging judges to convict a Congolese warlord of recruiting hundreds of child soldiers and sending them to fight and kill in his country's brutal conflict./ppDeputy Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda told judges that evidence in the trial that began in January 2009 gave voice to children that militia leader Thomas Lubanga had transformed into killers; those girls that Mr. Lubanga offered to his commanders as sexual slaves./ppBensouda said the armed wing of Lubanga's Union of Congolese Patriots political party trained hundreds of children in 20 camps scattered across the Ituri region of eastern Congo in 2002-2003./ppThey were used to fight in conflicts. They were used to kill, rape and pillage, she added./ppActress Angelina Jolie, who is a goodwill ambassador for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, was among dozens of people who watched proceedings from the court's public gallery. She made no comment to reporters./p/div
/div |
|
|
|
|
|
Legal News RSS Feed
