Bemba’s MLC troops helped put down an attempted coup in neighbouring CAR, in months-long campaign of horrific abuses against civilian population.

Thomas Lubanga, who became the first war criminal to be sentenced by the International Criminal Court, started off as a trader in Congo.

Congolese militia leader Germain Katanga, accused of massacres, using child soldiers and turning women into sex slaves, is to make his first appearance on Monday before the…