Posts Tagged ‘training camps’


May 19, 2009

Witness: Child Soldiers Guarded Lubanga

By Wairagala Wakabi

A former officer in the Union of Congolese Patriots (UPC) militia told the court on Tuesday that commanders, including Thomas Lubanga, had child soldiers among their bodyguards. The child soldiers at the UPC headquarters and those in Lubanga’s personal guard wore military uniforms and carried arms, he said. When he first testified earlier this month,…