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| |  | | Bosco Ntaganda | | | context : | DRC  | | judgement place : | ICC | | status : | Sought - Arrest warrant | | particulars : | Sealed arrest warrant issued on 22 August 2006; warrant unsealed on 28 April 2008 | | position : | Former Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the FPLC; allegedly current Chief of Staff of the Congrès national pour la défense du peuple (CNDP) |
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| | | | Bosco Ntaganda was supposedly born in 1973 and is believed to be of Rwandan nationality and Tutsi descent. He fought with the Rwandan Patriotic Army during the 1994 genocide. He is alleged to have been the former Deputy Chief of General Staff for Military Operations of the Forces Patriotiques pour la Libération du Congo (FPLC), the military wing of the UPC (Union of Congolese Patriots).
The UPC was created in 2000 and is accused of massacring civilians in 2002 in the Mongbwalu and Ituri districts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), resulting in the displacement of over 100,000 civilians. The UPC has also been involved in the practice of enlisting and conscripting children under the age of fifteen years and using them to participate actively in hostilities. Thomas Lubanga (see “related cases”), former Commander-in-chief of the FPLC, allegedly appointed Bosco Ntaganda the UPC's Army Chief of Staff on 8 December 2003.
Bosco Ntaganda is alleged to have been the primary recruiter of fighters from Ituri and to have answered to Thomas Lubanga. He is accused of using his authority to implement the FPLC policy of enlistment and conscription of children under the age of 15 and of using them to participate actively in hostilities in Ituri (DRC), between July 2002 and December 2003. Ntaganda is also accused of having de jure and de facto authority over the FPLC training camps for child soldiers at Bule, Cantrale, Mandro, Rwampara, Irumu, Bogoro and Sota. He is further accused of taking part in FPLC attacks when the group used child soldiers.
In 2002 UPC soldiers under Ntaganda’s command allegedly were involved in the killing of Lendu and Ngiti civilians in the towns of Songolo, Bunia and Mongbwalu.
He was arrested in in Kinshasa in 2002 but was later released in exchange for government minister Ntumba Luaba who was being held captive by Chief Kahwa Mandro, an Ituri militia leader.
He was appointed General in the FARDC (Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo) in December 2004 but refused to accept the promotion.
The authorities in the DRC issued an arrest warrant for Ntaganda in April 2005, for allegedly committing torture, assassination, illegal detention and arbitrary arrest. Ntaganda also was allegedly involved in incidents involving peacekeepers in 2004, namely the kidnapping of a Moroccan peacekeeper and the murder of a Kenyan peacekeeper. There are also suggestions that he was implicated in the killing of two aid workers in the DRC.
After leaving Ituri in 2006, Ntaganda reportedly is now chief of staff of the National Council for the Defense of the People. The group, known by its French acronym CNDP, is the political wing of the militia led by Laurent Nkunda (see “related cases”) in the North and South Kivu provinces of Congo.
A warrant of arrest was first issued against Ntaganda on 22nd August 2006 by the Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (ICC) but was kept under seal due to the risk of Bosco Ntaganda fleeing or obstructing the work of the Court. | |     click for more... | | Trial Watch would like to remind its users that any person charged by national or international authorities is presumed innocent until proven guilty. | |  |  | | also known as : | | | Terminator | | | last time seen : | | | DRC | | | period of charges : | | | 07.2002 | | | charges : | | | War crimes | | | profile last modified : | | | 24.09.2009 |
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