Students at Duke University School of Law gathered on Wednesday, November 4, for a screening of the documentary film "Invisible Children" and discussion of the work of the ICC and the Special Court for Sierra Leone in prosecuting the crime of enlistment of child soldiers. The documentary reports on the enlistment of child soldiers by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in Uganda's civil war and demands an international response to the suffering inflicted on the children of Uganda by the LRA's recruitment tactics. Presentations by Duke ICCSN members Kristin Leefers, Karen Riewe, Drew Kostic, and Christopher Ford demonstrated how the Sierra Leone tribunal and the ICC have defined and prosecuted the crime of enlistment of child soldiers in Sierra Leone and the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the cases of The Prosecutor vs. Sesay, Kallon, and Gbao (Sierra Leone) and The Prosecutor v. Thomas Lubanga Dyilo (ICC).




