Warlord

Rebels, revolutionaries, and warlords have been vying for power on the African continent for years. You may have heard about the children they steal and train to be child soldiers for their armies, children who learn violence and murder.

Bosco Ntaganda is one of those warlords.  For some reason unknown, he turned himself in at the U.S. Embassy in Kigali, capital of Rwanda, asking that he be transferred to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. That was in 2013. 

The ICC handed down a verdict just days ago:  guilty on 18 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity. The trial took almost four years, with over two thousand victims represented by legal counsel. Ntaganda is detained while he waits for sentencing.

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(cont'd tomorrow)