A few minutes into his opening statement in the case against Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga Dyilo before the International Criminal Court in 2009, the prosecutor stopped speaking. He pointed to a screen with video footage that slowly lingers over a group of child soldiers. To make his case, he simply punctuated the visual images with a short repeated question: “This one?, This one?, This one?” To convict Lubanga of war crimes, the Office of the Prosecutor needed to prove that children under the age of 15 were being conscripted and enlisted. When Lubanga was convicted in 2012, the prosecutor commented …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
