ICC To Sentence Congolese Warlord Thomas Lubanga

The International Criminal Court said Friday it will on July 10 sentence Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga, convicted of using child soldiers in his rebel army.

Lubanga was found guilty of conscripting and enlisting children.

Lubanga, 51, was convicted in March of war crimes for using child soldiers in a brutal conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2002-03, in the ICC’s first verdict since it started work a decade ago.

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