Congolese Rebel Bosco Ntaganda Found Guilty Of War Crimes
Congolese Rebel Bosco Ntaganda Found Guilty Of War Crimes
Congolese Rebel Bosco ‘Terminator’ Ntaganda, has been found guilty of war crimes after being arraigned at the International Criminal Court (ICC).
Ntaganda who was convicted on 18 counts, including murder, rape, sexual slavery and using child soldiers, became the first person to be convicted of sexual slavery by the ICC. According to the Judge, the 45-year-old rebel leader gave the orders to “target and kill civilians” in Democratic Republic of Congo’s volatile, mineral-rich Ituri region in 2002 and 2003 and also committed several atrocities which includes mass killing at a village where grown men and women, children and babies, were “disemboweled or had their heads smashed in”.
He was also responsible for the rape and sexual ...