Bosco Ntaganda, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Bosco Ntaganda

Indicted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes

Date of Birth: 05-Nov-1973

Place of Birth: Rwanda

Profession: military officer

Nationality: Rwanda

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Bosco Ntaganda (born 5 November 1973) is a convicted war criminal and the former 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), the military wing of the Union of Congolese Patriots.Until March 2013, he was wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) 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, Ntaganda had been allegedly involved in the rebel group March 23 Movement, a military group based in eastern areas of the DRC.
On 18 March 2013, Ntaganda voluntarily handed himself into the U.S.
Embassy in Rwanda, asking to be transferred to the ICC.
On 22 March, he was taken into custody by the ICC.
On 8 July 2019, the ICC convicted him of war crimes.
He was subsequently sentenced to 30 years for crimes against humanity.