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Co-operating with ‘war criminals’

Fri, May 08 2009 10:00 CET byKevin Beck 831 Views
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Reports say that a wanted war criminal from the war in the Republic of Congo named Bosco Ntaganda who is under indictment for his role as a leader of the outlawed FPLC, the Patriotic Force For the Liberation of Congo, a group known for its use of child soldiers in the terrible wars in Central Africa, has been actively working with the United Nations Forces in the troubled region.

Ntaganda is currently under indictment for war crimes by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for severe human rights abuses involving a common and large scale problem of forcing children to perform military service against their will often with threats and use of torture, rape and death.

It is very disturbing that an individual known to be forcing children into fighting in the Congo is being included in United Nations activities. This example of allowing persons involved in mass killings, genocide etc. was also common in the wars in the former Yugoslavia, mainly in the Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina where Serbian and Croatian persons known to be involved in war crimes were treated as partners rather than serious violators of human rights.
 




Kevin Beck
Las Vegas, Nevada

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