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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court filed their first indictment Monday, charging a former Congolese warlord for allegedly abducting and recruiting children as young as 10 to fight in Congo's brutal civil war.
Thomas Lubanga was accused of forcing families to give up at least one child to his militia and abducting other children, training them and sending them to the battlefield against ethnic rivals in Congo's lawless Ituri region.
Deputy prosecutor Fatou Bensouda said her office was citing six individual cases meant to represent "a significant number" of children aged 10-15 conscripted into Lubanga's organization known by its French acronym UPC and its armed wing, the FPLC.
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