Posts Tagged ‘Serge Kilo Ngabu’


May 8, 2009

Social Worker Questioned About Meeting

By Wairagala Wakabi

Former social worker Serge Kilo Ngabu said he was asked by a commander in the militia of accused Congolese leader Thomas Lubanga to arrange a meeting to quell ethnic fighting in the troubled Ituri region. Under cross-examination by Lubanga’s defense counsel Catherine Mabille, the former social worker said he was approached about a meeting to…

May 8, 2009

Witnesses Say Lubanga Headed UPC

By Wairagala Wakabi

The rapid rise of accused Congolese leader Thomas Lubanga within the Union of Congolese Patriots (UPC) and his role in the group’s militia were revealed this week in his trial before the International Criminal Court in The Hague. Lubanga started as a bean seller at a market in the Ituri regional center of Bunia in…

May 7, 2009

Witness Says Families Reject Child Soldiers

By Wairagala Wakabi

A social worker who helped to reintegrate former child soldiers in Congo’s Ituri district told the court on Thursday that some families were unhappy when their children left militia groups. “We had huge difficulties to reintegrate them as many families were hostile to their returning,” said the witness, Serge Kilo Ngabu. “Many families considered this…