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March 19, 2013

Congolese Rebel Leader Wanted for War Crimes Surrenders at U.S. Embassy 
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A Congolese rebel leader wanted on war crimes charges has turned himself
in to the U.S. embassy in Rwanda and asked to be transferred to the
International Criminal Court. Bosco Ntaganda was a leader of the M23
rebel group that temporarily seized the Congolese city of Goma last
year. He has been indicted by the ICC for murder, rape, sexual slavery,
ethnic persecution and recruiting child soldiers in the Democratic
Republic of Congo. Ntaganda had reportedly been fleeing from a rival
faction of the M23 rebel movement. Some have also speculated he may have
lost backing from supporters in Rwanda.

 

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