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‪The trial of Germain Katanga, which took place before the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague between November 24, 2009 and March 7, 2014, is herein treated as a source, first according to its declarative framework, for the history of certain episodes in the Second Congo War (RDC), then in terms of the courtroom as a cosmopolitical arena and apparatus to describe the form of “internal armed conflicts” and “internationalized armed conflicts.” Among the highly asymmetrical antagonists that confronted each other, with regard to their respective arms and resources, some considered and openly declared in court that their only forces resided in the power of their prophets/witch doctors and their fetishes. One of the constants in this trial was that the witnesses attempted to establish a measure of relative forces, as much in war (arms/fetishes) as in the courtroom (the word of the law/that of fetishes).‪