DR Congo’s ruthless wartime ‘Terminator’

KINSHASA: War crimes suspect Bosco Ntaganda is the feared former commander of a ruthless rebel group that pillaged and raped in DR Congo’s mineral-rich east, earning him the nickname “The Terminator”.
Tall, smug, and said to be trigger-happy too, the 41-year-old Ntaganda fought for different rebel groups as well as for the Democratic Republic of Congo’s army from his late teens.
He faces 18 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity for the deaths of hundreds of villagers, rape, recruiting child soldiers, and keeping girls under 15 for himself as sex slaves.
The fifth former Congolese warlord in the dock before the International Criminal Court, he is the first to have given himself up as his M23 rebel army foundered and signed a peace deal with government troops in 2013.