THE SMALL figures hidden under green cloaks shuffle forward and give their testimony through a voice-distorting funnel. "We were taught how to take a woman by force," says one boy who was abducted while walking home with his mother. Another says he was recruited at the age of nine and given medicine to enable him to rape women. All are giving evidence in the trial of Ntabo Ntaberi Cheka, a warlord from eastern Congo who faces charges of recruiting child soldiers, mass rape and other atrocities.
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