The International Criminal Court has upheld a sentence of 14 years in prison against Thomas Lubanga Monday in The Hague. In 2012, the former Congolese militia leader was convicted of war crimes by international justice.
The President of the Court of Appeal, Judge Erkki Kourula, rejected all arguments of Thomas Lubanga related ground of appeal. "He has failed to effectively support his arguments, he said, has distorted the findings of the trial and the trial record. The Court of Appeal found no error in the proceedings of the trial court. "dropoff Window
Thomas Lubanga felt that his first trial was not fair. He was charged including enlisting child soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2002 and 2003.
In January 2009, that opens the trial of Thomas Lubanga at the International Criminal Court (ICC), three years after an international arrest warrant was issued against former Congolese rebel leader to make it tried for war crimes, conscription and enlistment of child soldiers under fifteen in armed conflict.
"He committed some of the most serious crimes of concern to the international community, crimes against children," then say Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the ICC prosecutor.
In addition to NGO reports of rape practices, torture, murder, looting and forced displacement, Thomas Lubanga was convicted of recruiting child soldiers during the civil war in Ituri between 2002 and 2003 .dropoff window
He was then leader of the Union of Congolese Patriots (UPC) and commander of its military wing, namely the Patriotic Forces for the Liberation of Congo (FPLC), accused of numerous human rights abuses.
From 1999 to 2004, during the conflict in Ituri, a northeastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, inter-ethnic clashes and fighting between militias for control of the gold mines in particular have killed 60 000 people .dropoff window Thirty thousand children were sent to the front by the various forces on the ground, some had just 8 years.
In 2012, Thomas Lubanga was sentenced to 14 years in prison. It was then the first ICC in the history of conviction.
Created in 2003, that court is the first permanent international criminal tribunal to try those accused of genocide, crimes against humanity, aggression and war crimes, crimes.
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