Congo militia leader sentenced to 12 years for war crimes

[JURIST] The International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website] on Friday sentenced [press release] Congolese militia leader Germain Katanga [case materials; JURIST news archive] to 12 years in prison for war crimes. Katanga, the alleged commander of the Patriotic Resistance Forces in Ituri, an armed militia group from the Ituri region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), was convicted [JURIST report] in March on four counts of war crimes and one count of crimes against humanity. Katanga's guilty verdict...

Source: http://jurist.org/paperchase/2014/05/congo-militia-leader-sentenced-to-12-years-for-war-crimes.php

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