Congo-Kinshasa: Congo Atrocities Suspect Arrives At International Criminal Court

Bosco Ntaganda has arrived in The Hague to face charges of murder, rape and using child soldiers. He was allegedly involved in the brutal murder of at least 800 people in villages in the volatile east of the DR Congo.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) had sought Ntaganda for crimes against humanity allegedly committed during his years as a warlord in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. After a 15-year run, and nearly seven years after he was first indicted, the commander of the Democratic Republic of Congo's M23 rebels had walked into the US embassy in Rwanda on Monday and asked to be sent to The Hague.

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