The International Criminal Court (ICC) is holding its first public hearings into compensation, focusing on child soldiers recruited in the Democratic Republic of Congo by former warlord Thomas Lubanga.
Lubanga was the first war criminal to be convicted by the court in The Hague. He was sentenced in July 2012 for his role as a military commander of a rebellion who waged a deadly war in the DR Congo’s Ituri province from 2002 and 2004.
The reparation hearing for Lubanga’s victims is seen as another milestone for the ICC.
The sum of $1.12m has been allocated to the case by the Trust Fund for Victims, an independent body set up under the treaty that established the court.
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