ICC former vice president of Congo declares guilty

- Judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague on Monday the wealthy Congolese businessman, politician and militia leader Jean-Pierre Bemba found guilty of crimes against humanity. Bemba was the principal responsible for what his militiamen wreaking in neighboring Central African Republic. The punishment will be determined later.

Bemba was once vice president of Congo and a powerful rival of President Joseph Kabila, who rules the Congo since the beginning of 2001.

The ICC has charged him to be responsible for their numerous war crimes and crimes against humanity committed between October 2002 and March 2003 by a militia of Bemba. He sent an army to Central Africa to help it to crush 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. 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.