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Feb. 03, 2016 | 03:02 PM

Congolese warlord Katanga on trial again after completing ICC sentence

This Nov. 24, 2009 file photo shows former Congolese warlord militiaman Germain Katanga sitting in the courtroom of the International Criminal Court in The Hague. AFP PHOTO / MICHAEL KOOREN

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Summary

Notorious Congolese warlord Germain Katanga was back in the dock Wednesday for crimes against humanity, after completing a first 12-year sentence handed down by the International Criminal Court.

The 37-year-old was convicted by the ICC over a 2003 attack on the village of Bogoro that saw 200 people shot and hacked to death.

DR Congo itself, a country of more than 67 million people that is Africa's second largest, was torn by two wars between 1996 and 2003 estimated to have cost at least two to three million lives.