Children aged 9 ‘trained to killin Congo war’
Children as young as nine, ripped from their families, were told “their gun was father and mother and would feed and clothe them,” Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo told the three-judge panel in the trial of Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga.
Lubanga’s trial has been hailed as a legal landmark by human rights activists, because it is the first international criminal prosecution to focus solely on child soldiers and the first to include the participation of witnesses.
