Ntaganda, who handed himself in six years ago, will be sentenced at a later date.

Bosco Ntaganda’s defense say he was kidnapped and dragooned into military service as a boy, making him a victim of a brutal system.

ICC chief judge Robert Fremr countered that Ntaganda, known as the eliminator, was a key leader of rebels whom he sent to target and kill civilians.

The court heard of young children being disemboweled and of young girls being forced into sex slavery.

Ntaganda, who became a DRC army general before breaking away to form a rebel group, was found guilty of 13 counts of war crimes and five counts of crimes against humanity in the mineral rich region of Ituri between 2002 and 2003.

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