How I first got involved with child soldiers in DRC

Bukeni Waruzi, program coordinator for Africa and the Middle East at WITNESS discusses how he got involved with rehabilitating child soldiers in his native eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

This is the first vlog in a four part in-depth interview series with Bukeni who has worked on the issue of child soldiers for more than a decade.

In January 2009, Bukeni traveled to The Hague to attend the International Criminal Court's (ICC) first trial ever - a trial against Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, accused of conscripting children under the age of fifteen to fight on the frontlines of his rebel army.