Bosco Ntaganda
| Bosco Ntaganda | |
|---|---|
| Born |
5 November 1972 Kiningi, Rwanda |
| Nationality | Congolese |
| Other names | Bosco Ntagenda, Bosco Baganda, Bosco Taganda, "the Terminator" Jean Bosco Ntaganda |
| Known for | Indicted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes |
Bosco Ntaganda (born 5 November 1972) is the military chief of staff of the National Congress for the Defense of the People (CNDP), an armed militia group operating in the North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). He is a former member of the Rwandan Patriotic Army and allegedly a former Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Patriotic Forces for the Liberation of Congo (FPLC).
Until March 2013, he was wanted by the International Criminal Court for the war crimes of enlisting and conscripting children under the age of fifteen and using them to participate actively in hostilities. Prior to his surrender he had been allegedly involved in the rebel group March 23 Movement. On 18 March 2013 he voluntarily handed himself into the U.S. Embassy in Rwanda asking to be transferred to the International Criminal Court. On 22 March, he was taken into custody by the International Criminal Court. He is also known as "the Terminator" and his surname is sometimes given as Tanganda, Ntanganda, Ntangana, Ntagenda, Baganda or Taganda.
Ntaganda was born in the small town of Kinigi, situated in the foothills of Rwanda's Virunga mountain range in Musanze. When he was a teenager, he fled to Ngungu-Masisi in eastern DR Congo after attacks on his fellow ethnic Tutsis started taking place in Rwanda. He attended secondary school there but did not graduate; at the age of 17, he joined the Rwandan Patriotic Front rebels in southern Uganda. At some point he acquired Congolese citizenship.
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