HIST 3001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, Command Responsibility
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Recruitment/enlisting means trying to get someone to sign up/want to join. The court is saying that they are pretty much the same. Remains a crime to take someone under 15 into your armed forces by either conscription or recruitment the same crime. Two crimes: is the defendant bringing in to the armed forces children under 15, using child soldiers in hostilities (even if you are not the one who enlisted them) How to hold him liable for what he did (how to prove what he speci cally did: president of the upc/fplc at the time (upc is political, fplc is the military one) Plan to recruit and ght knowing that the ordinary course of doing so would involve the use of child soldiers. Criminal liability is not limited to those who carry it out, but also to those who are removed but are the mastermind.
