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ICC sentences Congolese warlord Katanga to 12 years
Daily Nation
Africa
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The International Criminal Court on Friday sentenced Congolese warlord Germain Katanga to 12 years in jail for arming an ethnic militia that carried out a "particularly cruel" 2003 village massacre.
"The chamber sentences Germain Katanga to 12 years in prison," presiding Judge Bruno Cotte told the Hague-based court in its second sentencing since opening in 2003. The almost seven years that Katanga has already spent in detention will be deducted from the sentence, he said.
Credit: Daily Nation
