The judgment in the trial of Congolese political leader Thomas Lubanga at the International Criminal Court (ICC) will be handed down first in English and later in French, according to a decision judges reached on Tuesday. At a status conference, judges today informed parties to the trial that the gap between the judgment being ready…
Pierre Zuto Munji This morning the prosecution concluded cross-examining Pierre Zuto Munji, private secretary to Commander Bosco Ntaganda, at the war crimes trial of Thomas Lubanga Dyilo. Prosecutor Manoj Sachdeva returned to the issue of UN complaints to the Union of Congolese Patriots (UPC) about the use of child soldiers in the Force for the…
Three days after appeals judges ordered the resumption of the Thomas Lubanga trial, the defense team today told trial judges that the prosecution had failed to effect all the disclosures ordered by judges relating to the identity of an intermediary. Lead defense counsel Catherine Mabille indicated during a court session that the failure by the…
Appeals judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) will next Friday deliver judgment on the prosecution’s appeal against the release of Congolese war crimes accused Thomas Lubanga. In a statement issued today, the court said judgments on the prosecution’s appeals against the trial chamber’s decisions to stay proceedings in the case and to release Mr.…
A prosecution witness, who was unable to testify in the Thomas Lubanga war crimes trial last year due to ill health, will give evidence next Monday, according to presiding judge Adrian Fulford. ‘Witness 297’, a former child soldier in the Union of Congolese Patriots (UPC), the militia group that Mr. Lubanga is alleged to have…
The Thomas Lubanga trial today adjourned early after prosecutors said they were not ready to cross-examine a new defense witness about some aspects of his testimony. The witness had told the trial that he was a former soldier in the Union of Congolese Patriots (UPC); prosecutors said the defense had withheld this fact from them.…
In their continuing cross-examination of a former child soldier who is the second victim to appear at the trial, Thomas Lubanga’s defense has dwelt on the circumstances surrounding his capture by Union of Congolese Patriots (UPC) militiamen, and the roles he played while he was with the group. The punishments which the victim said were…
Horrific stories of murder, sexual slavery and beatings emerged in the courtroom this week as victim participants took the witness stand in the trial of Congolese militia leader, Thomas Lubanga, at the International Criminal Court. A schoolmaster told of his suffering allegedly at the hands of the Union of Congolese Patriots (UPC) militia who hit…
The trial of Congolese war crimes accused Thomas Lubanga this week focused on the atrocities which fighters of the Union of Congolese Patriots (UPC) meted out on civilians and child soldiers, and also saw one of the participating victims who gave evidence asking for reparations. According to the testimony of two participating victims, UPC militiamen…
Commanders in Thomas Lubanga’s militia impregnated young female recruits, a former soldier in the Union of Congolese Patriots (UPC) told prosecutors on Tuesday. “[The commanders] took girls and would get them pregnant, and then these girls had to leave the camp and go [back] to the village,” said the witness, who trained young recruits at…
Thomas Lubanga on trial at the International Criminal Court. Thomas Lubanga Dyilo is the first person to be tried by the International Criminal Court. A former rebel leader in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Lubanga is accused of conscripting, enlisting, and using child soldiers. More
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