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ICC Kangaroo Court open for business.(Inside Track)(case of Thomas Lubanga Dyilo will be first tried at International Criminal Court (The Hague, Netherlands))(Brief article)

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On January 29, the International Criminal Court (ICC) ruled that Thomas Lubanga Dyilo could be tried "for war crimes consisting of enlisting and conscripting children under the age of 15." The 46-year-old Lubanga, a father of seven, was leader of the Union of Congolese Patriots, a faction involved in fighting in the Congo in 1998. He was arrested in 2005. "Three boys and three girls, one only 10 years old when Congo's civil war broke out, were among those interviewed in preparing the case," the Washington Post reported. Lubanga, who is alleged to have presided over the deaths of UN peacekeepers and who was implicated in the 2004 disappearance of an Agence France-Presse reporter, according to the group Reporters sans Frontiers, maintains his innocence. His case will be the first tried by the ICC.

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