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.…
A witness who said he fought with the Union of Congolese Patriots (UPC) today started giving evidence in the trial of Thomas Lubanga at the International Criminal Court (ICC). The ICC alleges that Lubanga headed the UPC, a group that used child soldiers in inter-ethnic conflict during 2002 and 2003. The witness, the sixth called…
Two defense witnesses who testified in Thomas Lubanga’s war crimes trial this week accused intermediaries of the International Criminal Court (ICC) of concocting evidence with the aim of pinning the former Congolese militia leader. According to the witnesses, the intermediaries paraded before ICC officials many children who had never served in the military, and claimed…
Thomas Lubanga’s defense opened today at the International Criminal Court (ICC), with his lawyers declaring that they would produce evidence to show that agents of the Office of The Prosecutor helped to fabricate the testimony of several witnesses who were called by the prosecution. Catherine Mabille, Lubanga’s lead counsel, said they would produce 16 witnesses…
Former child soldiers in the Union of Congolese Patriots (UPC), the group which war crimes accused Thomas Lubanga is alleged to have led, this week recounted stories of torture, whippings and brutal punishments of boys and girls who served in the militia group. Two former child soldiers told the Lubanga trial at the International Criminal…
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…
The second victim participating in the Lubanga trial on Friday related how he was tortured at a camp of the Union of Congolese Patriots (UPC), a militia group Thomas Lubanga is alleged by prosecutors at the International Criminal Court (ICC) to have led. He also told court that UPC commanders ordered him to find for…
The Lubanga defense today questioned the participating victim who begun giving evidence at the Lubanga trial on Tuesday, querying his account of how rebels abducted pupils from a school where he was the schoolmaster, and the authenticity of the medical records he presented before the court. Defense counsel Jean-Marie Biju-Duval put it to the witness…
The first participating victim to take the witness stand in the trial of former Congolese militia leader Thomas Lubanga told the court on Tuesday that the reason he was testifying was to inform the world about the crimes committed against his people by a militia group Lubanga is alleged to have led, and to ask…
Three of the 103 victims participating in the Thomas Lubanga trial will this week give evidence in what is the first opportunity for victims to testify in this capacity at the International Criminal Court (ICC). The victims have to date played a unique role in the trial. Their legal representatives always attend court hearings and…
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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