Octave Dioba, the geopolitical expert who testified in the defense of Jean-Pierre Bemba last week, today completed giving evidence in the trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC).
The expert affirmed that the political and strategic responsibility for acts of violence perpetrated against civilians did not lie with the accused. If the troops Mr. Bemba had placed at the "disposal" of the neighboring country's leaders indeed committed crimes, then responsibility lay with those authorities.
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