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case testified in February 2011. 1314 These two
participating victims do not appear to have
testified about sexual violence in open court.
The first witness for the Katanga Defence, the
accused’s younger brother, testified on 24 March
2011. 1315 Significantly, three of the Katanga
Defence witnesses have sought asylum in the
Netherlands, as detailed in the Protection
section of this <strong>Report</strong>. The Katanga Defence
called its final witness on 12 July 2011; the
Ngudjolo Defence commenced its defence on 15
August 2011. Both of the accused are testifying
on their own behalf during the proceedings.
After having requested translation into Lingala
due to his inability to follow the proceedings in
French, starting on 27 September 2011, Germain
Katanga testified in French, resulting in the
Chamber’s order to the Registry to cease Lingala
translation. 1316 Katanga’s testimony, as of the
writing of this <strong>Report</strong>, is summarised below.
Ngudjolo is scheduled to testify in late October
2011.
Witness testimony on
sexual violence
Because the majority of Prosecution witnesses
who testified about sexual violence did so during
the period covered by the <strong>Gender</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>Card</strong>
2010, 1317 the description of witness testimony
on sexual violence covered by this year’s <strong>Gender</strong>
<strong>Report</strong> <strong>Card</strong> is necessarily limited. Over the
course of the Prosecution case in 2010, three
female witnesses testified on sexual violence. 1318
Two of them testified about having been raped
by several soldiers and on several occasions;
one of them stated that some of the soldiers
subsequently told her that she was now their
wife. One of the witnesses was brought to and
kept in a camp prison where she was regularly
raped by multiple perpetrators, and was later
forced into marriage with a man who came to
the camp to rape her. Apart from the testimony
of female witnesses, a number of male witnesses
for the Prosecution also testified about the
multiple roles women and girls played during
the attack. Two male witnesses testified about
rape in general terms. A more detailed summary
of these witnesses’ testimonies is available in the
<strong>Gender</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>Card</strong> 2010. 1319
Although the testimony of Prosecution witnesses
covered by this year’s <strong>Gender</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>Card</strong> centred
primarily on the use of child soldiers, and not
specifically on sexual violence, several witnesses
of both the Prosecution and the Defence did
provide testimony related to gender-based
crimes. 1320 A number of male witnesses for
the Prosecution testified that women were
abducted, taken hostage, used as sexual slaves
and forced into marriage. Witness 12 testified
that women were abducted and taken to Zumbe
1314 ICC-01/04-01/07-T-231-Red2-ENG; ICC-01/04-01/07-
T-232-Red-ENG; ICC-01/04-01/07-T-233-Red-ENG; ICC-
01/04-01/07-T-234-Red-ENG; and ICC-01/04-01/07-T-
235-Red-ENG.
1315 ICC-01/04-01/07-T-240-Red-ENG.
1316 ICC-01/04-01/07-T-315-ENG, p 10 line 23.
1317 For a detailed account of their testimony, see <strong>Gender</strong>
<strong>Report</strong> <strong>Card</strong> 2010, p 160-178.
1318 Witness 287, 249 and 132.
1319 <strong>Gender</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>Card</strong> 2010, p 165-176.
1320 This section includes selected information from witness
testimonies that were given in open session and that
were made available on the ICC’s website as of 16
September 2011.
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