{"id":20312,"date":"2014-05-23T08:56:13","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T08:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=20312"},"modified":"2014-05-23T08:56:13","modified_gmt":"2014-05-23T08:56:13","slug":"icc-gives-katanga-12-year-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/05\/icc-gives-katanga-12-year-sentence\/","title":{"rendered":"ICC gives Katanga 12-year sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"
Katanga’s conviction, the second in the ICC’s 11-year history, relates to the killing of hundreds of civilians in 2003.<\/p>\n
The International Criminal Court has sentenced Germain Katanga, a rebel commander from the Democratic Republic of Congo, to 12 years in jail for arming an ethnic militia group that carried out a “particularly cruel” 2003 village massacre.<\/p>\n
“The chamber sentences Germain Katanga to 12 years in prison,” presiding Judge Bruno Cotte told the Hague-based court on Friday in its second sentencing since opening in 2003.<\/p>\n
The almost seven years that Katanga has already spend in detention will be deducted from the sentence, he said.<\/p>\n
Katanga was found guilty of having procured the weapons – including guns and machetes – used in the massacre but was cleared of direct involvement. He was found not guilty of rape, sexual slavery and using child soldiers.<\/p>\n
Congolese authorities arrested and surrendered the 36-year-old to the ICC in 2007.<\/p>\n
The court’s first conviction was handed down in 2012, to DR Congo’s Thomas Lubanga for using child soldiers.<\/p>\n
Source: Al Jazeera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Katanga’s conviction, the second in the ICC’s 11-year history, relates to the killing of hundreds of civilians in 2003. The International Criminal Court has sentenced Germain Katanga, a rebel commander from the Democratic Republic of Congo, to 12 years in jail for arming an ethnic militia group that carried out a “particularly cruel” 2003 village […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":20313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[14],"yoast_head":"\n