
Lionel Healing / AFP
Congolese rebel general Bosco Ntaganda, seen in 2009.
Bosco Ntaganda, a former rebel militia leader known as 'The Terminator' and wanted for suspected war crimes in Congo, has given himself up at the U.S. Embassy in Kigali in neighboring Rwanda, Reuters reported Monday.
"We have learned today that Bosco Ntaganda entered Rwanda and surrendered to (the) U.S. Embassy in Kigali," Rwandan Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwabo posted to Twitter on Monday.
The surrender was confirmed by U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland.
Ntaganda, leader of the Congelese rebel group M23, is wanted by the International Criminal Court.
News site Al-Jazeera described him as a "feared military commander who runs a vast extortion empire in the mineral-rich east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)."
Human Rights Watch said it had been documenting atrocities by troops under Ntaganda’s command for over 10 years. It said Ntaganda crimes include recruiting and using child soldiers, murder, rape and sexual slavery, and persecution.
"I can confirm that this morning Bosco Ntaganda, and ICC indictee and leader of one of the M23 factions, walked into U.S. Embassy Kigali," Nuland told reporters. "He specifically asked to be transferred to the ICC in the Hague. We are currently consulting with a number of governments, including the Rwandan government, in order to facilitate his request."
Neither Rwanda nor the United States has an obligation to hand Ntaganda over to The Hague-based ICC since they are not parties to the Rome Statute that established the court.
Ntaganda’s rebels have been fleeing into Rwanda or surrendering to UN peacekeepers in recent days after being defeated by a rival faction, Reuters reported.
Recent fighting in DRC, including infighting within M23, has sent thousands of Congolese civilians fleeing to neighboring Uganda.
This story was originally published on Mon Mar 18, 2013 1:53 PM EDT


Off him. He's a monster.
Nope, he's just a man. We're all capable of these kinds of atrocities. He is a product of the DNC way of life. If any of us were encouraged at an early age that these types of acts were acceptable and even celebrated, we all would be able to do it. This is why certain African countries are lost causes. The people are tainted with decades of blood-lust and pain. To stop the suffering of future millions, thousands need to die today.
WE all are not capable of such despicable acts. Some people do know the differences between right and wrong. This person was a leader of War Crimes vs Humanity. No one pointed a gun at his head and said, Kill, Murder, Rape, imprison others just because you can. They are surrendering because they NOW feel for their own safety. Want to get a square meal for free even if it is behind bars. There is noting worse in life then these type of people, Hitler, Stalin, Roman Empire and many others that will stop at nothing until they are appeased to their own devious ideas. Whether they turn them over, line them up for a firing squad is fine with me as long they are NO longer a threat to Mankind. I do not have enough words to describe such barbaric acts as committed by him and his gang of murders and thieves. They deserve nothing but the severest punishment.
No different then the gang bangers in Chicago. if you read the description of his atrocities without the story you would automatically think Chicago, just down the street from Obama's house.
And yes Allan that is in all of us, you will see! hopefully I won't have to witness it again. that is the advantage of being old I won't be here when @!$%# hits the fan. but it is going to, people are filling with hate. everybody wants what someone else worked for its only a matter of time and there will be violence all around the world. hatred and jealousy. the beauty of socialism will rear its ugly head again and show its destructive a capabilities, people will destroy their own nations rather then remove a dysfunctional form of government, they will destroy all chances of a good life rather then stop collect what they have and start over. socialism is poverty.
D Buck- Imagine that. You just described Mankind for the past 10,000 years. The World has always been full of hatred, bigotry, lawlessness and leaders who subject their will upon everyone they possibly can. Countries starting wars against each other for anyone of a thousand different reasons. The problems in Africa is that their isn't really any Laws or Police to protect people from savages. So some take the laws into their own hands and slaughter people at will because they can. Yes I know there were 508 murders in Chicago last year and Detroit is not a place that most would want to even visit let alone live there. There are other cities that are very safe compared to those two I just mentioned. Check your list of cities of 250,000 for crime rates and murder. Guess which one I live in. Yep Plano, Texas. You were about 1200% more likely to be murdered in Chicago as here. That is even after you take the size into consideration. Some city leaders refuse to let crime run ramped or gang members to exist. Everyone is responsible for their own actions in life. These cut-throats wanted by civilized countries need to be tried and convicted and sentenced to life in prison. (World Court has no death penalty) oh well you can't have it all. Thanks for your posting it was very informative.
For those who say, that what this rebel leader did, is in all of us under the right circumstances, implies that what he did, is part of the common makeup of each human soul and we all would do if the right circumstances were to happen.That actually, is NOT the case according to documented reviews of real historical events, research, and studies of human behaviors. Including under horrific circumstances, like the Holocaust,prolonged harsh imprisonment, severe survival situations, brutal savage treatment, military experiences and times where people were exposed to group dynamic pressures of life or death.
What was discovered, was that those who have an intrinsic value they place on principals, including integrity in life above all things, would choose to die themselves,rather then take someones life, or cause harm to another. Even if that other person was acting awful. Such people are the ones who would not stoop to doing anything to stay alive. They are a breed apart and would die to protect others. It does not matter what you threaten them with, they have an altruistic centered personality
As a special report showed about a year ago, what this rebel leader did was far beyond what most humans experience in life.Torturing men,women. children, raping women in front of their loved ones,then butchering the family before killing women. He trained little children to kill, and cut off the limbs of other children who refused, or ran away.Wiped out whole villages leaving babies orphaned and alone while dragging young girls off, so his men can use them repeatedly til they get tired then kill.Often he simply burned huts with people hiding inside or shot them when they tried to come out.
These are not things most people in the world, have the capacity to do and encourage others to do, as one watches and laughs about.You have to grow accustom step by step to this kind of evil and pursue it.Thus Bosco Ntaganda has his hands, heart and soul steeped in blood from countless numbers of victims over the decades. Most people in the world have not courted evil as he has, and so do NOT have the capacity to do the works he has done.As studies and research have shown, you either have it in your makeup or you don't, to butcher children, rape women, brutalize human beings.Yes, one could be pushed to defend oneself if need be to protect.
However, depravity,savagely slaughtering babies,and doing the most unspeakable things to people, is beyond what most normal folks can tolerate mentally dealing with. Why it is even difficult for people just to go to war and shoot at their enemies, as was discovered long ago in WW1.If some of you want to place yourself in the category of those who are just like him, help yourself. But it is not all of us who belong there, that is for sure. And science backs that up.Not everyone can be a Hitler, Stalin,mass murder, serial killer, for a very good reason.
So now this killer, or Terminator desires to hand himself over, to United States personnel. Because he knows, only there will he get some protection and chance of not being killed outright. By those who seek revenge for all the pain and suffering, along the bloody trail he has left in his tracks.
He IS a monster but I sincerely hope her had good intentions.
The ICC says that as leader of a militia in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, he was criminally responsible for the use of child soldiers and acts of murder, rape and sexual slavery. Can't scrap any good intentions out of this resume.
It makes one wonder why he would surrender to the US as opposed to going into hiding in some other country. Either way I'm glad somone of his ilk is no longer a threat to innocent people.
Because he know's we won't drag him out into the street, ring him with gas soaked tires, and light him on fire while hacking his feet off so he can't run while he's burned alive. He can depend on us to follow the rule of law, and that's a hard thing to find in Africa.
He also knows that the US is not party to the treaty that established the International Criminal Court,nor is Rwanda, so neither is obligated to give him up. But, if we do give him up, as he's requested, yeah, what @Todd said.
"Todd-651965
Because he know's we won't drag him out into the street, ring him with gas soaked tires, and light him on fire while hacking his feet off so he can't run while he's burned alive. He can depend on us to follow the rule of law, and that's a hard thing to find in Africa."
however if he did those things hes accused of, he deserves the gas soaked tires.
Since the US is not a party "to the Rome Statute that established the court"; is that why Obama was never turned over to it for murdering civilians in Libya?
It's why Dick Cheney isn't sitting in a cell in the Netherlands.
Wait, what did I miss? Who did the President murder in Libya?
Let's start with rumsfeld cheney bush rove and the list goes on. I am sure everyone sees a patern. No need for me to list all...
@cappy-1911
Obama didn't murder anyone in Libya, it's just a lap dog, let out of the kennel for his morning run, that had to yap and yip. If anyone needs to join him in a cell, it would be Cheney and Rummy, and possibly the first AG that GW Bush had.
I don't think Bush broke as many laws as Cheney has, and if Bush is suppose to be in a cell, then everyone in the Congress at that time should also be there. They gave him the permission, except for a couple of house members who voted NO on some of Bush's policies.
The back channel authority Cheney used clearly violated our Constitution, and did cause war crimes to happen. But the soldiers following the orders got courtmartialed, not the ones who gave the orders. And that happens way to often.
Sure... The Hauge doesn't impalement the death penalty any more. Commit all those crimes and just live the rest of his life in jail.
Yep, turn him over to Congo authorities.
I am sure they would not have him linger in prison for the rest of his life.
He probably has some vile illness & knows he will get proper treatment followed by life of comfort rather than dying in agony in the bush.
Scum like this guy, and Kony, need to be hunted down with drones and captured. Then tried and jailed for life for crimes against humanity.
They need to be made examples of, for all of Africa to see. Only then will the fear they project, be broken.
You can't capture a guy with a drone. What's it going to do, land near him with a sign that says "Gotcha". Our drones use Hellfire Missiles that have "You are now Captured" painted in small letters on the side of them.
Todd: The primary function of a drone is to gather intelligence and perform surveillance. We've found quite a few people with them and....uh F'it...nevermind.
I think warlords in the far out places of Africa are not different than the drug dealers in Mexico... you kill one and another takes his place. The rewards are so high that it's hard to resist.
Bosco must now be running from whoever is replacing him, since he would just disappear in the jungle if they caught him. This way he has half a chance of spending the rest of his life in prison, rather than at the bottom of a crocodile in the Congo.
Chicken@!$%# bully. Now the tables are turned and he's got someone on his ass that's as bad as he wanted to be. Does he dig in and fight it out like the badass he's been acting like for the past 10 years? No. Coward runs to the closest embassy and hides beneath the table.
Give him back to the ones that he wronged. They're the ones that need justice, not some tribunal in Europe. Give him to his victims.
bobmck-7513688,
I agree. Let the victims decide his fate. Not like the victims of the Komar Rouge in Cammbodia who are still waiting for justice after some twenty plus years.
Most of his victims are now dead. He preyed on children, primarily. He, and his armed group, went into villages, raped the women, raped the kids, then kidnapped the children and forced them to fight as child soldiers. He provided these kids to his armed group for gang rape and then fought them until they were dead. All the while he trafficked in conflict minerals and lived a very lavish lifestyle, right out in the open. DR Congo government PROTECTED this monster for the longest time.
Okay, so now this guy will enjoy American privileges at tax payer expense, effin' awesome! Funny how EVERYONE hates the US but as soon as they run into trouble, the good ole US is always the place to run to! The World has to accept the fact that WE are the only hope left!
Right on youwish3578139.
They better NEVER. I swear to God if our government protects this monster, I will make it my life's mission to out them all.
Spare the rest of the world the details and just hang him high.
" I be back"
But he is already well hung.
But WHO supplied the weapons to MAKE him so bad ??? That person should ALSO be at the ICC also. But knowing that way things are SET up you are not going to get any USA Arms Dealer or British or German or France guy there. The ICC is a JOKE knowing that all of these wars are started by the USA, UK, France and Germany for natural resources. ITS ALL A JOKE
No, you're the joke. One of these dictator/terrorist lovers who thinks everything is a free country's fault. You're sick. Mentally ill.
How about China and Russia? Don't they make AKs sold to skinnies?
Bosco!
LMAO shame he did not get feisty or pigotry !!!! ha ha ha ha ha
But Rwanda and American law enforcement officials are familiar with automatic weapons, and a jungle military tribunal with firing squad can save European taxpayers and the Hague Court time and money.
Ok so what will they do with or to him? Bring him here and make a citizen out of him? I don't think so. Let his country have him and punish him by their laws.
Fry him up and feed him to the hungry.
No worse than Cheney and his goon squad
Your irrational hatred is showing.
He surrendered to the U.S. embassy because he know's the U.S. won't kill him.
@Letusreason
Don't be so sure of that, every POTUS has had, at one time or another, some person removed. If you think otherwise, you are one naive person. Doesn't matter what party he belong to, but the govt, under that person's time in office, offed someone somewhere. So yes, he also could have a plane accident while being transported somewhere.
Some people here are saying that he is human and that all of us are capable of the things he did...I disagree because I don't see myself orchestrating gang rapes of defenseless women, or ruining children lives by sending them to die young in war, just over some minerals or whatever it is that these guys seek. Has any of you seen the movie 'War Witch"? maybe after you watch it, and put yourself in the shoes of the children portrayed in the movie, you might have a better understanding of why many people think that this guy is not fit for society.
He was about to be captured and killed by his rivals or the law of the jungle as it's known. When the gig was up he runs to daddy, er the US for protection from those that should be dealing with him.
Bosco just got scared that the UN forces might catch him. Even 245 of Bosco's thugs have surrendered in the mining district. Maybe it's because they have never actually been challenged by any military units with some training and backing. Either that or Bosco fears he was about to be replaced and would rather live the rest of his life in prison in the EU than be hacked up and fed to the crocodiles.