DRC: International court should be faster

The International Criminal Court, which has a Congolese rebel leader in jail as its first defendant, will have speedier proceedings than the U.N. special tribunal for Yugoslavia, the court's chief prosecutor said Saturday (March 18). The Criminal Court's first prisoner, Thomas Lubanga, was flown to the Netherlands just before midnight Friday and taken into custody at the court's newly opened detention unit - the only inmate there so far. Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said the arrest warrant covered crimes committed after July 1, 2002, when the world's first permanent war crimes court came into existence.