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Thomas Lubanga Dyilo (born 2006 , p. 5) was the founder and leader of the Union Of Congolese Patriots (UPC), an Armed Militia in Ituri , northeastern Democratic Republic Of The Congo (DRC). Implicated in numerous Human Rights violations against civilians and the murder of UN Peacekeepers , he was arrested by the International Criminal Court (ICC) and is the first person put on trial by the ICC in The Hague , Netherlands . BIOGRAPHY During the Second Congo War , Lubanga was a military commander in the Uganda -allied Mouvement de Libération faction of the Congolese Rally For Democracy (RCD-ML). Lubanga formed the UPC with Ugandan assistance, predominantly from the Hema ethnic group, in 2000, at a time when the Ituri Conflict between the Hema and Lendu was well underway. With Ugandan help, the UPC captured the town of Bunia in 2002, in the course of which large numbers of civilians were killed. Over the next several years, the UPC was implicated in the large-scale murder, torture and rape of civilians, in particular ethnic Lendus, and the forced conscription of Child Soldier s. According to Radio Okapi , run by the United Nations Mission In The Congo , Lubanga had ordered every family in the area under his control to help the UPC by contributing money, a Cow or a child. Following the murder of nine MONUC peacekeepers in 25 March 2005 , he and other militia leaders were arrested by Congolese authorities and imprisoned in Makala , Kinshasa . However, it remained unclear if he was to be tried by the ICC or a national tribunal. The DRC had acceded to the ICC instrument, which came into effect on 1 July 2002 , and requested that ICC Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo investigate the situation in the east of the country in 2004. On , 18 March 2006 The first public pre-trial hearing was on 20 March , 2006 . NOTES EXTERNAL LINKS
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