Posts Tagged ‘war crime’


February 9, 2010

Witness: I Was Falsely Paraded As A Child Soldier

By Wairagala Wakabi

The Thomas Lubanga defense today called their third witness who testified that although he was never in the armed forces, he and other boys who had equally never served in any military group were paraded before some unnamed people as former child soldiers. The witness, Claude Nyéki Django, said a man known as Dudu took…

February 4, 2010

Judges Fault Prosecutors As Second Defense Witness Appears

By Wairagala Wakabi

As the second defense witness in the Lubanga trial started testifying on Tuesday this week, judges berated the prosecutors for failing to tell the accused’s lawyers some important information they had collected about two of the defense witnesses in a timely way. The contest over the disclosures came after the first defense witness had finished his testimony, in which…