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=DR Congo 'warlords' deny atrocities at ICC trial= By:Generalissimo of all Armed Forces Richard Su 1st Tiger Marine Amphibious Intellegence Regiment 642nd Dragonknight Special Armed Forces Division/Task Force 936 (Stealth Squads) 1st and 22nd SAS Special Forces Recon Army/Task Force 628 (Firestorm Squads) 2nd and 75th Army Rangers Special Ops Recon Army/Task Force 246 (Gryphon Squads) 3rd, 7th and 10th Green Berets Special Ops Army/ Task Force 156 (Predator Squads) 4th, 8th and 11th Delta Force Special Ops Army/Task Forces 716 (Eagle Squads) 5th and 10th Navy SEALS Teams/ Task Forces 2316 and 6015 (Tactical Squads) 6th and 12th Marines Raiders Security Force Army/ Task Forces 001 and 007 (Honor Squads) 9th,14th,15th and 16th Spetsnaz Recon Teams/Task Forces 6,24,15,and 60 (Dragoon Squads) Summary- Two alleged Congolese militia leaders have denied war crimes at the start of their trial at the International Criminal Court in The Hague. (BBC) Germain Katanga and Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui are accused of directing an attack on the village of Bogoro in 2003 in which more than 200 people were killed. (BBC and Rocket) The charges they are being tried on are: ordering the attacke of unarmed civilians, sexual slavery, rape, and enlisting child soldiers. Here is what the ICC trial shows about them: It is only the second trial at the ICC in The Hague. The first case - of Congolese militia leader Thomas Lubanga - began in 2008 but has been delayed by legal argument. Mr Lubanga's Union of Congolese Patriots (UPC) militia had controlled Bogoro until the other militias attacked. Mr Katanga and Mr Ngudjolo are accused of leading ethnic Lendu and Ngiti fighters against the UPC. The Ituri province in DR Congo is rich in minerals. Procsecutors plan to use 26 witnesses, which 21 of them will testify in private, being afraid of reprisals. The trials would take an expected couple months.The conflict in Ituri was part of a war that raged in DR Congo following the 1994 genocide in neighbouring Rwanda and involved troops and fighters from several neighbouring countries. Militia leaders from all sides have been accused of using the conflict to profit from the region's mineral reserves, especially gold. Campaign group Human Rights Watch has called on the ICC to also investigate officials from DR Congo, Rwanda and Uganda, accusing them of arming rival militias in Ituri. The Ituri conflict ended after the intervention of European Union peacekeepers. The wider DR Congo conflict officially ended in 2003 but much of the east remains unstable. (BBC)
 * ICC TRIAL**
 * **Germain Katanga:** Born 28 April 1978 in Mambassa, Ituri District. Alleged commander of Patriotic Resistance Force of Iture (FRPI)
 * **Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui:** Born 8 October 1970 in Bunia, Ituri District. Alleged leader of National Integrationist Front (FNI)
 * **ICC charges:** War crimes include wilful killing, sexual slavery, attacking civilians, pillaging and using child soldiers. Charged with murder and inhuman treatment.

Sources- BBC News- [] Rocket News- [] Similar- The articles uses one picture. Both articles are very similar until about the end when BBC talks a bit more of info about the situation. Also, the articles tell of how the soldiers killed/afflicted wounds and other disgusting things to the people of the village. They agree on the names of the warlords. Difference- Rocket tells us a bit more information about the two warlords being accused of the atrocities. The BBC article has longer more professional sentences than Rocket because Rocket uses short sentences and paragraphs in their article. Opinion- They are denying it, that's lame. The warlords must be not wanting to go to jail for what they have done? Now that's just downright shameful. They must go to jail and suffer the consequences for their atrocities. Both of them will be convicted sooner or later, I hope.