Motorcycles, school fees, counselling, cash: Thomas Lubanga’s `kadogo’ (child soldiers) know what reparations they want from the International Criminal Court (ICC).
Less clear is what a cash-strapped court can offer damaged children taken from their families and forced to fight in a brutal ethnic conflict in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
This is a piece I wrote for IRIN on the thorny issue of reparations.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95257/DRC-Thorny-issue-of-reparations-for-Lubanga-s-victims
It was also reprinted by the Guardian in the UK.
