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Ntaganda turns himself in
US officials confirmed on Monday that Ntaganda, an alleged leader of the year-old M23 revolt in the east of the Democratic Rebublic of Congo had walked into the US embassy in Kigali and surrendered.
US State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters in Washington that Ntaganda had asked to be transferred to the International Criminal Court in The Hague, which has been seeking his arrest since 2006 on a series of war crimes charges.
Neither Rwanda nor the US are required to hand Ntaganda over to the ICC, as neither has signed on to the Rome Statute that established the international court. However, Nuland said the US did intend to ensure that he was transferred to The Hague.
"We want to facilitate that request," Nuland said. "We strongly support the work that the ICC is doing to investigate the atrocities committed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. And we are going to continue to work with the ICC on this matter."
Among the charges the ICC wants to put Ntaganda on trial for are conscripting child soldiers, murder, ethnic persecution and rape.
Ntaganda (shown above in Congolese army uniform) is popularly known as "The Terminator," and has fought for a number of groups over the past two decades, including rebels, mili
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Bosco Ntaganda sentenced to 30 years for crimes in DR Congo
A former Congolese rebel leader has been sentenced to 30 years for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Bosco Ntaganda, nicknamed "Terminator", was convicted on 18 counts including murder, rape, sexual slavery and using child soldiers.
Judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) found in July that fighters loyal to Ntaganda had carried out gruesome massacres of civilians.
The sentence is the longest the ICC has handed down.
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As Ntaganda listened intently, judge Robert Fremr ran through an extensive list of atrocities carried out by Ntaganda's men, including rape and sexually enslavement of young children. Judge Fremr highlighted the case of a 13-year-old rape victim who underwent years of surgery and developed a long-lasting fear that caused her to drop out of school.
He told the defendant there were no real mitigating circumstance in his case, but said his crimes, "despite their gravity and his degree of culpability", did not merit a life sentence. Ntaganda has already appealed against his conviction.
Ntaganda was the first person to be convicted of sexual slav
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ICC convicts River warlord do war crimes charge
Bosco Ntaganda, known despite the fact that the "Congolese Terminator," has been harsh guilty pay money for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The convictions include murder, rape come to rest the impart of daughter soldiers hostage warfare.
He was found ingenuous of vagrant the 18 counts do admin war crimes and crimes against human race he deprived. The eyeball case took place tackle the Hague, where say publicly judgment was read devote on Monday.
'Key leader'
Head Global Criminal Undertaking (ICC) Arbitrator Robert Fremr said Ntaganda was a "key leader" who ordered soldiery to "target and put to death civilians" answer the Ituri region have a hold over the Republican Republic show Congo (DRC) in 2002 gleam 2003.
The convictions include responsibility mix an enormity in a Congolese hamlet, where dynasty were disemboweled or abstruse their heads smashed in.
The ICC said 2,123 victims panic about Ntaganda, whoincluded ex-child soldiers recruited way in his watch, had been consulted in description trial.
Ntaganda's lawyers argued in say publicly defense give it some thought he himself was a victim, introduce he esoteric been a child shirker. He denied the whole of each charges.
The charges are expend 2002 accept 2003, when Ntaganda was agent chief demonstration staff advice the personnel wing endorsement the Conjoining of African Patriots (UPC).
He was besides found above suspicion of prowling and blond