For many Congolese September brings bad memories. It was in September 16 years ago that RCD-ML – a rebel group for Uganda’s illegal occupation and exploitation of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s gold, coltan and diamonds – was launched in Kampala.
So when the ICC prosecutor last week began reading the 18 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity that Bosco Ntaganda had allegedly committedagainst the Congolese people from September 2002 to September 2003, my heart cried. FULL STORY