The International Criminal Court sentenced former Congolese military leader Bosco Ntaganda on Thursday to 30 years in prison for atrocities including murder, rape and conscripting child soldiers.
Congolese Nobel Peace prize winner Denis Mukwege on Tuesday urged the International Criminal Court to keep investigating in DR Congo after its ruling to convict ex-warlord Bosco Ntaganda.
Bosco Ntaganda, dubbed the “Terminator” is accused of overseeing the slaughter of civilians by his soldiers in the DRC’s volatile, mineral-rich Ituri region in 2002 and 2003.
A former Congolese military leader on trial for charges ranging from murder and rape to conscripting child soldiers and sexual slavery told judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday that he was “a revolutionary, but not a criminal.”
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