Thursday, May 23, 2013
News | International Criminal Court (ICC)
| DR Congo Government Warns Bosco Ntaganda He May Face Justice | |
Congo News Agency - April 6, 2012 | |
 | The Congolese government said on Thursday that “irregular troop movements” have been observed in eastern Congo since last weekend. The troop movements are believed to be a show of force by General Bosco Ntaganda, who has been indicted by the International Criminal Court, amid renewed calls for his arrest after his former boss, Thomas Lubanga, was convicted by the ICC on March 14 for using child soldiers. |
| Thomas Lubanga found guilty of using child soldiers | |
International Criminal Court - March 14, 2012 | |
 | Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court decided unanimously that Thomas Lubanga Dyilo is guilty, as a co-perpetrator, of the war crimes of conscripting and enlisting children under the age of 15 and using them to participate actively in hostilities from 1 September 2002 to 13 August 2003. It is the first verdict issued by an ICC Trial Chamber. |
| LRA rebel leader Joseph Kony target of viral campaign video | |
BBC News - March 7, 2012 | |
 | A campaign by US activists to capture alleged Ugandan war criminal Joseph Kony has gone viral on the web. Invisible Children's half-hour film on the use of child soldiers by Kony's Lord's Resistance Army has been viewed nearly 10 million times on YouTube. Critics, however, have questioned the methods of the non-profit group. |
| ICC monitoring pre-election violence in DR Congo | |
International Criminal Court - November 11, 2011 | |
 | "The use of violence will not be tolerated. My Office is gathering and carefully reviewing converging reports of both verbal and physical violence arising out of the electoral campaign for the presidential and parliamentary elections on 28 November," said International Criminal Court Prosecurtor Luis Moreno-Ocampo. |
| Kabila Confident He Will Win Re-Election | |
Congo News Agency - October 18, 2011 | |
 | With only 6 weeks left before presidential and parliamentary elections, President Kabila, at a wide-ranging news conference on Tuesday, said that he is confident he will win re-election in November. “I know one thing for sure, I will not lose,” Mr. Kabila replied when asked if he thinks there is a candidate who could beat him. |
| Jean-Pierre Bemba Could Be Kingmaker in DR Congo Presidential Election | |
Congo News Agency - September 30, 2011 | |
 | The former DR Congo Vice-President, who lost the second round of the 2006 presidential elections to President Joseph Kabila, remains a political force to be reckoned with. His support is actively being sought by opposition candidates running for president in this year’s one-round presidential election. |
| Rwandan Rebel Leader Faces ICC on War Crimes Charges | |
VOA News - September 16, 2011 | |
 | A former Rwandan rebel leader has appeared before the International Criminal Court facing charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Democratic Republic of Congo. A prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, told The Hague court that Mbarushimana represented the “respectable public face” of the FDLR, a Rwandan Hutu rebel group that attacked civilians in Congo's North and South Kivu provinces in 2009. |
| UN envoy tells Security Council of improving security, remaining threats | |
UN News Service - June 9, 2011 | |
 | “There has been significant progress regarding the security situation in recent years in eastern DRC,” said Roger Meece, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative and head of the UN Organization Stabilization Mission in the DRC (MONUSCO), in a briefing to the Council. |
| Germany: Groundbreaking Trial for Congo War Crimes | |
Human Rights Watch - May 2, 2011 | |
 | The trial of two Rwandan rebel leaders arrested in Germany for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Democratic Republic of Congo makes the world a smaller place for suspected war criminals, Human Rights Watch said today. |
| Militiamen Sent to Testify in Warlords Trials at ICC | |
L'Avenir - March 28, 2011 | |
 | Four former militiamen, who had been arrested and were being held at the Makala prison in Kinshasa, were flown to the International Criminal Court on Sunday to testify as witnesses for the defense in the cases against Thomas Lubanga and Germain Katanga. |
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