ICC RATTLES AGAIN, THIS TIME HITTING CONGOLESE WARLORD THOMAS LUBANGA:

ICC RATTLES AGAIN, THIS TIME HITTING CONGOLESE WARLORD THOMAS LUBANGA:

Delivering its first sentence, the International Criminal Court jailed Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga Dyilo for 14 years yesterday for recruiting child soldiers.

Lubanga wa found guilty in march of abducting boys and girls under the age of 15 and forcing them to fight in a war in the DRC in 2002 and 2003.

About 60,000 people were killed in the Ituri region of eastern DRC between 1999 and 2003 in an ethnic conflict that set Lubanga’s Union Of Congolese Patriots against militias from the Lendu ethnic group, including the Congolese Popular Army and the Patriotic Resistance Force in Ituri.

The landmark ruling comes just months after Liberia warlord, Charles Taylor got 50 years in jail. Even with the court recently celebrating its 10^th Anniversary, many especially in Kenya are awaiting the post election violence suspects’ trials set for next year in April.