Warlord 'turned nine-year-olds into killers'

Children as young as nine were snatched from the streets and trained to kill by Congo warlord Thomas Lubanga, the International Criminal Court’s historic first trial heard today..

Warlord 'turned nine-year-olds into killers'

Children as young as nine were snatched from the streets and trained to kill by Congo warlord Thomas Lubanga, the International Criminal Court’s historic first trial heard today..

They were told “their gun was father and mother and would feed and clothe them,” Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo told the hearing in The Hague.

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