Int'l Court orders restart of Congo warlord's trial
The International Criminal Court yesterday ordered the resumption of the war crimes trial of Congolese militia leader Thomas Lubanga, stalled since July, and reversed an order to free him.
"The decision to stay proceedings must be reversed," judge Sang-Hyun Song, president of the court's appeals chamber, said in The Hague.
Lubanga, 49, went on trial in January 2009 accused of using children under the age of 15 to fight for his militia during the five-year civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo which ended in 2003.
The ICC suspended his trial on July 8 after criticising chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo for abusing court processes and ignoring judges' orders.
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