Former Congolese rebel leader Bosco Ntaganda is due to go on trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague for war crimes.

Bosco denied all eighteen charges which include murder, rape and the recruitment of child soldiers.

More than two thousand victims have been cleared to take part in the trial, including former child soldiers who will be called as witnesses.

The forty-one year-old rebel leader is accused of killing at least eight hundred civilians during separate attacks on a number of villages between 2002 and 2003.

General Ntaganda fought for different rebel groups as well as the Congolese army.