Congo-Kinshasa: Opposition Leader in Hands of International Justice
                   
allafrica.com     Jul 9, 2008            

Posted to the web 9 July 2008 The Hague Last week, Jean Pierre Bemba, leader of the opposition in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), was handed over to the International Criminal Court (ICC) after being arrested six weeks ago by Belgian police within the framework of an international arrest warrant. From Saint Gilles prison, in Brussels, the leader of the Movement for the Liberation of Congo was sent to the penitentiary of Scheveningen, in the suburbs of The Hague. He joined the former President of Liberia Charles Taylor, on trial at the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL), which is extraordinarily holding this trial in The Hague, and three officials from militias from eastern DRC, Thomas Lubanga, Germain Katanga, and Mathieu Ngudjolo. The ICC wants to try him for crimes against humanity and war crimes committed by his... [read full story]                    


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