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Published — Thursday 3 September 2015
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THE HAGUE: Harrowing pictures of bodies littering a banana plantation
Wednesday marked the start of the trial of warlord Bosco Ntaganda,
accused of running a campaign of terror in eastern Democratic Republic
of Congo.
Nicknamed “The Terminator,” Ntaganda denied 18 charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity as he stood in the dock at the International Criminal Court.
Ntaganda is accused of orchestrating hundreds of deaths in savage ethnic attacks in the northeastern DR Congo in 2002-2003, as well as recruiting and the rape of child soldiers within his own rebel army.
ICC chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda opened her case recounting the story of a man looking for his family after an attack in the Ituri region in February 2003. “He saw a banana field where the trees had been cut, (and) among those trees lay many bodies,” Bensouda said.
“He searched through the dead bodies for a long time before discovering his dead son, a toddler, disemboweled and his throat slit,” she said, adding the rest of the man’s family suffered a similar fate. Prosecutor Nicole Samson showed judges graphic images of bodies dumped in the banana plantation after being brutally slaughtered.
Nicknamed “The Terminator,” Ntaganda denied 18 charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity as he stood in the dock at the International Criminal Court.
Ntaganda is accused of orchestrating hundreds of deaths in savage ethnic attacks in the northeastern DR Congo in 2002-2003, as well as recruiting and the rape of child soldiers within his own rebel army.
ICC chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda opened her case recounting the story of a man looking for his family after an attack in the Ituri region in February 2003. “He saw a banana field where the trees had been cut, (and) among those trees lay many bodies,” Bensouda said.
“He searched through the dead bodies for a long time before discovering his dead son, a toddler, disemboweled and his throat slit,” she said, adding the rest of the man’s family suffered a similar fate. Prosecutor Nicole Samson showed judges graphic images of bodies dumped in the banana plantation after being brutally slaughtered.
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