These days, he’s technically legit, wearing the uniform of a general in the national Congolese army. The warrant (PDF) the International Criminal Court issued for his arrest on August 22, 2006, charged him only with the war crimes of enlisting, conscripting, and using child soldiers back when he was head of military operations for a rebel militia in the early 2000s. That’s not included in the official indictment against Bosco. “I didn’t recognize you!”): Because recently, Bosco tried to kill him. That’s why one guy I meet wears a light disguise whenever he goes out (“Oh hey!” an old friend says after initially walking right past him. That’s why my Congolese sources stay out of nice restaurants, stay out of the city if they can, and when they have to flee the country, they don’t tell their families where they’ve gone or why. That’s why one Congolese driver told me he couldn’t take me around Goma because he would be killed the moment I left. And Bosco, a man about town who owns the bar Kivu Light and the Bunyole cheesery, is a fixture here, enough that the first time I walk in, someone says casually, “Oh! You just missed Bosco.” The chicken samosas in curry sauce with pineapple are delightful. It has what may be the best selection of booze-Blue Label, pastis, whatever you like-in this provincial capital in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. And pretty much any time of day is perfect at Le Chalet, Goma’s premier restaurant, where the inside is all slate floors and licheche-wood furniture and Latin jazz, and outside tables dot a manicured lawn that slopes down to Lake Kivu.
“We are working to facilitate the requests Ntaganda has made,” a State Department spokesperson tells Mother Jones. After entering the embassy, the wanted warlord requested a transfer to the International Criminal Court in The Hague. Update (): The US State Department confirms that Bosco Ntaganda has turned himself in to the US Embassy in Kigali, Rwanda. Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.
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