The International Criminal Court convicted a Congolese warlord on Wednesday of using child soldiers, a verdict hailed as a legal landmark in the fight against impunity for the world's most serious crimes and the first judgment in the court's 10-year history. Thomas Lubanga faces a potential sentence of life imprisonment.
March 15, 2012 at 12:00 AM
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The International Criminal Court convicted a Congolese warlord on Wednesday of using child soldiers, a verdict hailed as a legal landmark in the fight against impunity for the world’s most serious crimes.
Human rights advocates said the guilty verdicts against Thomas Lubanga — the first judgment in the court’s 10-year history — should stand as a clear deterrent to armies around the world not to conscript children.
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