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The International Criminal Court's historic first trial was to get under way today, with Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga facing six charges of recruiting and sending child soldiers to fight and die in bloody ethnic battles. The case finally goes to trial more than six years after the court started work and six months later than planned after a fierce debate about confidential evidence derailed the case last year. Lubanga, 48, is expected to plead not guilty.
