Posts Tagged ‘interview’


February 20, 2009

Lubanga Trial, Week 4: Prosecution Focuses on Video Evidence

By Rachel Irwin

Prosecutors relied heavily this week on video evidence that appeared to show children in military uniforms with accused militia leader Thomas Lubanga. “I saw them,” an unnamed witness said of the children in the videos. The witness was present at the filming of most of the video clips shown at the International Criminal Court (ICC)…

February 18, 2009

In Video, Lubanga Denies Using Child Soldiers

By Rachel Irwin

In an unedited video interview shown in court on Wednesday, defendant Thomas Lubanga denied using child soldiers to fight in his militia. In the video, Lubanga is shown speaking with an unidentified British journalist. Lubanga alleges that it was the Ugandan army who “armed some children” in various militia groups in the Ituri region, not…