{{The International Criminal Court has sentenced Congolese warlord Germain Katanga to 12 years in jail.}}<\/p>\n
Katanga had been in March found guilty of war crimes.<\/p>\n
“The chamber sentences Germain Katanga to 12 years in prison,” presiding Judge Bruno Cotte told the Hague-based court in its second sentencing since opening in 2003.<\/p>\n
The almost seven years that Katanga has already spend in detention will be deducted from the sentence, he said.<\/p>\n
He is only the second person to be convicted by the court.<\/p>\n
He was behind the 2003 massacre of hundreds of villagers in the north-east of the Democratic Republic of Congo.<\/p>\n
The fighting escalated into an inter-ethnic conflict that is estimated to have killed 50,000 people.<\/p>\n
Katanga, who is known to his supporters as Simba or “the lion”, was found guilty of planning the ambush on the village in the gold-rich Ituri province of north-eastern DR Congo.<\/p>\n
The rebel leader was also found to have procured the weapons – including guns and machetes – used to kill more than 200 of the villagers, but he was acquitted of direct involvement.<\/p>\n
Katanga, 36, was also cleared of using child soldiers and of committing sexual crimes.<\/p>\n
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