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Now remember the name Jean-Pierre Bemba: he's a former vice-president in the Democratic Republic of Congo and rebel leader who's now a convicted war criminal at the International Criminal Court. He was found responsible for atrocities carried out by his militia in the Central African Republic and of using rape as a weapon of war. Newsday got reaction from Zainab Bangura, the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General on Sexual Violence in Conflict.

(Pic: Former DRCongo leader Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo waits in a courtroom of the ICC to hear the delivery of the verdict against him. Credit: AFP)