Jean-Bosco Ntaganda

The report by a UN Panel of Experts details constant communications between two rebel leaders Jean-Bosco Ntaganda former Commander of the Congrès national pour la défense du peuple (CNDP) and M23 leader Sultani Makenga and all Rwanda’s most senior military officers apart from President Paul Kagame: Defence Minister General James Kabarebe; the Permanent Secretary of the Defence Ministry Gen...

’ His office said that M23’s leadership includes Colonel Sultani Makenga a former rebel leader accused of killing civilians and recruiting child soldiers and Jean-Bosco Ntaganda an army general wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on charges of war crimes of using children in combat...

Kinshasa’s Ambassador to Paris (and formerly to the United Nations) Christian Atoki Ileka said ’The UN Sanctions Committee now needs to do its job and publish the information denounce the violations of the arms embargo and put pressure on Rwanda to halt any support to Jean-Bosco Ntaganda and the M23 mutineers...

The recruits said they had been processed at a hotel in Ruhengeri Rwanda belonging to a brother of CNDP General Jean Bosco Ntaganda the mutineers’ leader wanted by the International Criminal Court...

Protesting at their loss of privileges the rebels under General Jean-Bosco Ntaganda who is wanted in the Hague for war crimes deserted the Forces armées de la République démocratique du Congo (FARDC) into which the CNDP had been integrated in March 2009...

General Jean-Bosco Ntaganda who is wanted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity during the 1998-2003 civil war has taken to the bush in command of an independent force...

Jean-Bosco Ntaganda ('Terminator') commander of the CNDP before it was integrated into the national army...

They comprise former Congrès National pour la Défense du Peuple soldiers who were subject to ‘accelerated integration’ after the 23 March 2009 peace accord the arrest of Nkunda by Rwanda and the return of the CNDP to the control of General Jean-Bosco Ntaganda...

Jean-Bosco Ntaganda against whom the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant in 2006 for his part in recruiting children as soldiers in 2002-03 for the warlord Thomas Lubanga who faces trial in the Hague...

This is so despite warmer relations between Kinshasa and Kigali and the Rwandan army's arrest of the Tutsi rebel leader Laurent Nkunda (see Rwanda Feature) in early 2009 and his replacement as head of the Conseil National pour la Défense du Peuple by his former deputy Jean-Bosco Ntaganda...