DRCongo militia chief transferred to International Criminal Court

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THE HAGUE (AFP) — Democratic Republic of Congo militia chief Germain Katanga was transferred Thursday to the International Criminal Court in The Hague to face multiple charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Katanga, accused of massacring villagers, using child soldiers and sexually enslaving women in the north-eastern Ituri region, was led off to the detention centre of the International Criminal Court in The Hague after a night flight from DR Congo's capital Kinshasa.

Katanga is only the second person charged before the world's first permanent war crimes court to be taken into its custody, following another Ituri warlord, Thomas Lubanga, whose trial is due to start next February.

The 29-year old leader of the Forces for the Patriotic Resistance...