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ICC Renders Its First Verdict: Guilty as Charged

ICC First verdict: Thomas Lubanga guilty of conscripting and enlisting children under the age of 15 and using them to participate in hostilities © ICC-CPI/ Evert-Jan Daniel/ANP * Based on the ICC Press Release ICC-CPI-20120314-PR776 of 14 March 2012 (available here) Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (ICC) decided unanimously that Thomas Lubanga Dyilo is guilty, as a co-perpetrator, of the war crimes of conscripting and enlisting children under the age of 15 and using them to participate actively in hostilities from 1 September 2002 to 13 August 2003. This is the first verdict issued by an ICC…