00:01It is an unexpected discovery.
00:05The Congolese armed forces announced this week that they had found a secret weapons stash in Ituri province,
00:12including grenades, automatic rifles and several ammunition boxes.
00:19The weapons were found buried on a mining site in Noro.
00:23The armed forces said that they suspected the stash to belong to Thomas Lubenga's militia,
00:28the Convention for the Popular Revolution.
00:32The militia was founded a year ago and is mostly active in northeastern Congo.
00:37Its impact is so far limited, it faced several defeats in clashes with the armed forces over the last months.
00:46Thomas Lubenga is a Congolese warlord who was sentenced for war crimes by the International Criminal Court,
00:52making him the first person ever sentenced in the court's history.
00:56Lubenga returned to Ituri province last year.
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