ICC doth judge on former vice president of Congo

- Judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague do verdict Monday in the case against a wealthy businessman, politician and militia leader Jean-Pierre Bemba. He was once vice president of Congo and a powerful rival of President Joseph Kabila, who reigns Congo since early 2011.

The ICC Bemba accused in neighboring Central African Republic (CAR) to be responsible for numerous war crimes committed between October 2002 and March 2003 by a militia of Bemba. He sent an army to Central Africa to help precipitate a coup attempt.

The lawyers have argued that Bemba wayward fighters were no longer commanded by Bemba when they committed the crimes. They marched with Central African troops and listened not to Bemba.

He was arrested in Belgium in 2008 and extradited to the ICC in The Hague. The process began in late 2010 and lasted four years. For Bemba's ruling Monday no completion of the protracted legal battle with the ICC. Even with an acquittal, he must stay in The Hague. Prosecutors are in fact another case against Bemba and four employees began because of bribery of witnesses and falsification of evidence in 2014.

The case against Bemba is one of many of the court in which the ICC is accused of slowness. The facts which the court ruled on Monday, his fourteen years old. Since then there have been many more bloody conflicts in the CAR. Congo will be helped by turning off his rival Bemba ICC suspected of President Kabila.