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Congo Warlord Gets 14 Years for Using Child Soldiers

ICC hands down first-ever sentence

By Rob Quinn,  Newser Staff

Posted Jul 10, 2012 9:36 AM CDT

(Newser) – Congo warlord Thomas Lubanga has been sentenced to 14 years in prison, which is longer than many of the child soldiers in his rebel army had been alive when he commanded them in the country's civil war. The sentence was handed down by the...   Read full story »

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