Rwanda Should Stop Aiding War Crimes Suspect Bosco Ntaganda: Human Rights Watch | |
Human Rights Watch - June 4, 2012 | |
Rwandan military officials have been arming and supporting the mutiny in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo of Gen. Bosco Ntaganda, who is wanted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court. Rwandan military officials have allowed Ntaganda to enter Rwanda and supplied him with new recruits, weapons, and ammunition. | |
UN Report Accuses Rwanda of Supporting Bosco Ntaganda Rebels | |
Congo News Agency - May 28, 2012 | |
An internal UN report obtained by the BBC says that Rwanda is once again supporting rebels in eastern Congo linked to renegade general Bosco Ntaganda. The report cites rebel soldiers who say they were trained to join the Rwandan army but were sent instead across the border to eastern Congo to fight alongside mutinous soldiers. | |
ICC Prosecutor Seeks New Charges Against Ntaganda, FDLR Leader | |
International Criminal Court - May 14, 2012 | |
The Office of the Prosecutor has requested two new arrest warrants. The first one relates to Bosco Ntaganda for the crimes committed as a top commander of Thomas Lubanga's militia, the UPC/FPLC. The second was filed against a leader of one of the most active militia in the Kivu provinces, Sylvestre Mudacumura, the Supreme Commander of the FDLR-FOCA. | |
Army Suspends Military Operations Against Ntaganda Loyalists | |
Congo News Agency - May 6, 2012 | |
The Congolese army has regained control of the areas of Masisi and Rutshuru, in North Kivu province, which were occupied last week by mutinous soldiers loyal to renegade general Bosco Ntaganda. DR Congo’s Army Chief of Staff, General Didier Etumba, said in a press release on Sunday that military operations against the “undisciplined” soldiers have been suspended. | |
Kabila's Position on The Arrest of Ntaganda 'Has Not Changed' | |
Congo News Agency - April 13, 2012 | |
Contrary to wire reports widely circulated in the international media, President Joseph Kabila did not call for the immediate arrest of renegade general Bosco Ntaganda during a meeting with civil society leaders in North Kivu Province on Wednesday. President Kabila said that his position on his arrest "has not changed". | |
Kabila, Army Chief of Staff head to eastern Congo to deal with defectors | |
Congo News Agency - April 10, 2012 | |
President Joseph Kabila and the Congolese Army Chief of Staff General Didier Etumba arrived in Goma on Monday to deal with the security threat posed by the defections of former rebels integrated into the army under a peace deal. General Etumba said that “those who do not want to submit to the republican order will be hunted down by the army.” | |
DR Congo Government Warns Bosco Ntaganda He May Face Justice | |
Congo News Agency - April 6, 2012 | |
The Congolese government said on Thursday that “irregular troop movements” have been observed in eastern Congo since last weekend. The troop movements are believed to be a show of force by General Bosco Ntaganda, who has been indicted by the International Criminal Court, amid renewed calls for his arrest after his former boss, Thomas Lubanga, was convicted by the ICC on March 14 for using child soldiers. | |
Thomas Lubanga found guilty of using child soldiers | |
International Criminal Court - March 14, 2012 | |
Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court decided unanimously that Thomas Lubanga Dyilo is guilty, as a co-perpetrator, of the war crimes of conscripting and enlisting children under the age of 15 and using them to participate actively in hostilities from 1 September 2002 to 13 August 2003. It is the first verdict issued by an ICC Trial Chamber. | |
LRA rebel leader Joseph Kony target of viral campaign video | |
BBC News - March 7, 2012 | |
A campaign by US activists to capture alleged Ugandan war criminal Joseph Kony has gone viral on the web. Invisible Children's half-hour film on the use of child soldiers by Kony's Lord's Resistance Army has been viewed nearly 10 million times on YouTube. Critics, however, have questioned the methods of the non-profit group. | |
ICC monitoring pre-election violence in DR Congo | |
International Criminal Court - November 11, 2011 | |
"The use of violence will not be tolerated. My Office is gathering and carefully reviewing converging reports of both verbal and physical violence arising out of the electoral campaign for the presidential and parliamentary elections on 28 November," said International Criminal Court Prosecurtor Luis Moreno-Ocampo. |