Bosco Ntaganda | |
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Born | Kiningi, Rwanda | 5 November 1973
Nationality | Congolese[1] |
Other names | The Terminator[2] Jean Bosco Ntaganda[3] |
Criminal charges | War crimes (13 counts) Crimes against humanity (5 counts) |
Criminal penalty | Found guilty of all charges on 8 July 2019, sentenced to 30 years in prison on 7 November 2019. Ordered to pay $30 million to victims on 8 March 2021, lost appeal on 30 March 2021. |
Criminal status | Surrendered to the U.S Embassy on 18 March 2013. Transferred to ICC custody on 22 March 2013, currently incarcerated. |
Bosco Ntaganda (born 5 November 1973)[4] is a convicted war criminal and the former military chief of staff of the National Congress for the Defense of the People (CNDP), an armed militia group operating in the North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).[5][6] He is a former member of the Rwandan Patriotic Army and allegedly a former Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Patriotic Forces for the Liberation of Congo (FPLC), the military wing of the Union of Congolese Patriots.[5]
Until March 2013, he was wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for the war crimes of enlisting and conscripting children under the age of fifteen and using them to participate actively in hostilities.[7] Prior to his surrender, Ntaganda had been allegedly involved in the rebel group March 23 Movement, a military group based in eastern areas of the DRC. On 18 March 2013, Ntaganda voluntarily handed himself in to the U.S. Embassy in Rwanda, asking to be transferred to the ICC. On 22 March, he was taken into custody by the ICC. On 8 July 2019, the ICC convicted him of war crimes.[8][9][10] He was subsequently sentenced to 30 years for crimes against humanity.[11]
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