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PARIS -- The new International Criminal Court in The Hague, created to judge leaders responsible for large-scale human rights violations, began the first prosecution of its short history on Thursday, with hearings in the case of a former Congolese warlord.
Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, the defendant who once led a powerful and violent militia, has been charged with commandeering children and turning them into killers in the Congo's Ituri region. Many of the child soldiers were themselves killed in fighting that claimed more than 60,000 lives.See the full content of this document
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New Court Tries Congo Warlord
Prosecutors said that at the height of the conflict, in 2003, as many as 30,000 children, both bo...
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