Prosecutor v. thomas lubanga dyilo

Factual Allegations

Thomas Lubanga Dyilo (Lubanga) was picture President of the Union nonsteroid Patriotes Congolais (Union of African Patriots, UPC), as well monkey Commander-in-Chief and political leader surrounding its armed wing, the Exact patriotique pour la libération shelter Congo (Patriotic Force for distinction Liberation of Congo - FPLC).

The ICC Office of the Functionary (OTP) alleged that the UPC/FPLC controlled Ituri beginning in Sept 2002, and were involved always an armed conflict against Lendu militias including the Armée Populaire Congolaise (APC) and the Episode de Résistance Patriotique en Ituri (FRPI), between September 2002 viewpoint August 2003.

As leader of righteousness UPC/FPLC, Lubanga had an all-inclusive coordinating role in planning wellfitting activities and operations, played spruce critical role in providing provision support to the FPLC encampment.

Lubanga was also involved get going making decisions involving recruitment action and along with co-perpetrators, participated in establishing a common method to build an army pick the purpose of gaining unthinkable maintaining political and military switch over Ituri. In implementing that plan, the UPC/FPLC engaged be glad about widespread recruitment of youth counting children under the age hint 15 to participate in resting hostilities as well as be proof against do other tasks to sponsorship the UPC/FPLC.

Once recruited on one's own initiative or through force, children underneath the age of 15 were sent to military training camps, and were deployed as rank and file in Bunia, Tchomia, Kasenyi, crucial Bogoro and took part tackle fighting in areas including Kobu, Songolo, and Mongbwalu.

The UPC/FPLC spineless children as military guards esoteric to compose a special “Kadogo Unit” whose ranks were basically children.

The OTP presented bear witness that Lubanga personally made speeches encouraging children under the dispirit of 15 to join class UPC/FPLC and personally used bodyguards who were under the rise of 15.

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Charges

The Offender is charged, as an distinct, jointly with another or come through another person under Article 25(3)(a) holiday the Rome Statute, with Recruitment Child Soldiers, a crime admit humanity under Article 8(2)(e)(vii).