The International Criminal Court has handed down its first sentence, imprisoning for 14 years a Congolese warlord convicted of using child soldiers. Thomas Lubanga was convicted in March of recruiting and using children in his Union of Congolese Patriots militia during fighting in Congo's eastern Ituri region in 2002-2003. The 51-year-old is the first person convicted by the 10-year-old permanent war crimes tribunal, according to a report of the Associated Press. Lubanga showed no emotion as Presiding Judge Adrian Fulford read out the sentence.
