War crimes judges will next month deliver a landmark order for reparations for the razing of the fabled Timbuktu shrines by a Malian jihadist, the International Criminal Court said Friday. Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi was jailed for nine years in September after pleading guilty to directing attacks on the UNESCO world heritage site during the jihadist … Read more
In its first such decision, the International Criminal Court on Friday awarded $250 dollars as “symbolic” damages to each victim of a former Congolese warlord, a sum swiftly dismissed as meaningless by those who lost homes and loved ones in a militia attack on their village 14 years ago. The reparations order was a landmark … Read more
Judges at the International Criminal Court may Friday award the tribunal’s first monetary sums to victims of war crimes, with lawyers estimating some $16.4 million in damages were caused by a 2003 attack on a Congolese village. Friday’s order for reparations for 304 victims of former Congolese warlord Germain Katanga is set to be a … Read more
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 … Read more