Congo-Kinshasa: 'I Protected Civilians' Ntaganda Tells ICC

3 September 2015

After entering a plea of not guilty on the first day of the trial at which he faces 18 charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity, Bosco Ntaganda made a fuller statement to the ICC on Thursday.

The man known as "The Terminator" told the three judges in the courtroom of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague that he was a professional soldier who never attacked civilians and had tried to restore peace during a brutal conflict in eastern Congo. Speaking in his native Kinyarwanda through an interpreter, he said he was not the Ntaganda portrayed by the prosecution.

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