{"id":6755,"date":"2013-03-26T07:22:14","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T07:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/gen-ntaganda-faces-icc\/"},"modified":"2013-03-26T09:53:20","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T09:53:20","slug":"gen-ntaganda-faces-icc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/gen-ntaganda-faces-icc\/","title":{"rendered":"Gen. Ntaganda Faces ICC, Pleads not Guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{General Bosco Ntaganda has made his first appearance before the International Criminal Court on Tuesday, more than seven years after the court first issued a warrant for his arrest.}}<\/p>\n<p>Ntaganda, the first ever suspect to voluntarily surrender to the ICC is facing seven counts of war crimes and three counts of crimes against humanity. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My name is Bosco Ntaganda, I only have the two names, the names given to me by my parents,&#8221; he said when presiding judge Ekaterina Trendafilova asked him to identify himself.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As you know, I was a soldier in the Congo,&#8221; he said. I am Congolese.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was informed of these crimes but I plead not guilty,&#8221; Ntaganda said before Trendafilova cut him short.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I do not want to interrupt you. The purpose of the initial appearance is a very limited one,&#8221; the judge said. &#8220;You will have ample opportunities to make your point as thoroughly and necessary to the chamber.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The judge set September 23 as the date for a hearing to confirm the charges against Ntaganda, who was allegedly involved in the murder of at least 800 people in villages in the volatile DR Congo&#8217;s Ituri region.<\/p>\n<p>During that hearing, prosecutors must convince the court&#8217;s judges they have enough evidence to take him to trial.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-2253 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/kopn.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-2251 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/j.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-2252 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/gg-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{General Bosco Ntaganda has made his first appearance before the International Criminal Court on Tuesday, more than seven years after the court first issued a warrant for his arrest.}} Ntaganda, the first ever suspect to voluntarily surrender to the ICC is facing seven counts of war crimes and three counts of crimes against humanity. &#8220;My [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[99],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-6755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-greatlakesnews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6755"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=6755"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=6755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}