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CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY - BOSCO NTAGANDA - AT THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT A Congolese woman's perspective - Notes by Shana de Carsignac Mongwanga
ATHENA-AFRICALIVES Director Shana de Carsignac Mongwanga with International Criminal Court prosecutor Fatou Bensouda
Shana de Carsignac Mongwanga-Eloko with International Criminal Court prosecutor Fatou Bensouda
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Shana de Carsignac Mongwanga during Congolese Women demonstrations in London holding EloKo Artist artwork showing crimes against humanity in Congo DRC
UPDATE Bosco Ntaganda guilty, beyond reasonable doubt, of 18 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity, committed in Ituri, DRC, in 2002-2003. On 7 November 2019, Bosco Ntaganda was sentenced to a total of 30 years of imprisonment. BY THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT.
FINALLY! The case of a mass murderer at the International Criminal Court (ICC) BOSCO NTAGANDA ON TRIAL FOR CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY.
A Congolese woman's perspective - Note by Shana Mongwanga written September 2015
FINALLY! The case of a mass murderer at the International Criminal Court (ICC) BOSCO NTAGANGA ON TRIAL FOR CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY. I certainly hope Mrs Fatou Bensouda - ICC Prosecutor - whom I met and exchange thoughts on the challenges Congolese women faced at the Global Summit on Sexual violence – read about AfricaLives work at the Summit -I hope she will convey all the tragedy and horrors the Congolese victims have endured, for the world to see and act accordingly.
So it begins, the trial of ONE OF THE RWANDAN-TUTSI GENOCIDE PERPETRATORS IN CONGO DRC. Of course the fact that he is only indicted for crimes committed in 2002-2003 is highly laughable and it is an insult to human consciousness , considering he was responsible for the M23 Movement and EVEN MORE DEGRADING FOR ALL OF HUMANITY IT'S THE FACT THAT HE SURRENDERED HIMSELF RATHER THAN BEING CAUGHT!
It shows how very very little those at the helms of power care for Justice and Humanity. The list of incongruities are abyssal, for instance: he was integrated into the Congolese national Army despite the crimes he committed against the Congolese population, and the knowledge by all parties involved to force him unto the Congolese population and the long term agenda to decimate the population in East Congo. which begs the question once again WHO ACTUALLY RUNS CONGO DRC? The list incongruities goes on.
BOSCO NTAGANDA IS AT THE ICC. Can this be a meaningful prosecution and truly change the dynamic of the impunity of those committing crimes in Congo? I am not optimistic.
I remember when the news of Ntaganda's surrender broke out. I was working on the film 'Order to rape' film with photojournalist Fiona Lloyd Davies for her company Studio 9 which was then be broadcaSt by the BBC Newsnight, Al Jazeera, ect. I remember the photojournalist calling Bosco Ntaganda on the phone and asking me if I could interpret the conversation which would be in Swahili. No one picked up that day. I tweeted about it later on.
What shocked me was the fact that a journalist could just have a mobile number contact for a man charged with crimes againt humanity and yet there was no real effort to track him of arrest. Indeed, Bosco - The terminator - Ntaganda had been seen dining undisturbed in restaurants in Goma at the same time as UN officials. Clearly the life of Congolese people are worth this much of an effort for the leaders of this world.
The CRUCIAL questions journalists, advocates and policy makers and those who actually cared about our humanity should be asking are:
-WHAT DEAL DID BOSCO NTAGANDA STRUCK TO SURRENDER?
-WHO HELPED AND FINANCED HIS OPERATIONS IN DRC ?
-WHAT WERE THE PURPOSE OF COMMITTING SUCH CRIMES IN DRC?
To deliberately omit to ask these questions is an attempt to whitewash the truth and to protect those committing mass murder and genocide in Congo DRC.
Of course we will find Rwandan and Ugandan government connections, international mining companies and European government's interest will appear in these answers. The ramifications of such evil are, as always well beyond the individual monster currently at the Hague.
CHARGES AGAINST BOSCO NTAGANDA - From Internationcal Criminal Court website
'On 9 June 2014, Pre-Trial Chamber II unanimously confirmed charges consisting in 13 counts of war crimes(murder and attempted murder; attacking civilians; rape; sexual slavery of civilians; pillaging; displacement of civilians; attacking protected objects; destroying the enemy's property; and rape, sexual slavery, enlistment and conscription of child soldiers under the age of fifteen years and using them to participate actively in hostilities) and 5 counts of crimes against humanity (murder and attempted murder; rape; sexual slavery; persecution; forcible transfer of population) against Bosco Ntaganda allegedly committed in 2002-2003 in the Ituri Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).Bosco Ntaganda bears individual criminal responsibility pursuant to different modes of liability, namely: direct perpetration, indirect co-perpetration (article 25(3)(a) of the Statute); ordering, inducing (article 25(3)(b) of the Statute); any other contribution to the commission or attempted commission of crimes (article 25(3)(d) of the Statute); or as a military commander for crimes committed by his subordinates (article 28(a) of the Statute)
UPDATE Bosco Ntaganda guilty, beyond reasonable doubt, of 18 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity, committed in Ituri, DRC, in 2002-2003. On 7 November 2019, Bosco Ntaganda was sentenced to a total of 30 years of imprisonment. BY THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT.
On 8 July 2019, ICC Trial Chamber VI found Bosco Ntaganda guilty, beyond reasonable doubt, of 18 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity, committed in Ituri, DRC, in 2002-2003. On 7 November 2019, Bosco Ntaganda was sentenced to a total of 30 years of imprisonment. The time he spent in ICC detention - from 22 March 2013 to 7 November 2019 - will be deducted from this sentence. On 30 March 2021, the ICC Appeals Chamber confirmed the conviction and the sentence in this case. These two decisions are now final. Next steps: On 8 March 2021, Trial Chamber VI delivered its Order on Reparations to victims against Mr Ntaganda.The Defence of Mr Ntaganda and the Legal Representative of one of the two groups of victims appealed the order. On 12 September 2022, the Appeals Chamber issued its judgment in the appeals and remanded several issues for the Trial Chamber to issue a new reparations order. On 14 December 2022, Mr Ntaganda was transferred to the Kingdom of Belgium to serve his sentence of imprisonment at the Leuze-en-Hainaut prison.