Extradiction should serve as a warning to other rebel leaders.
Rwanda accepts to hand rebel leader Nkunda over to DRC authorities
Rwandan Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Rosemary Museminali said here on Saturday that the captured renegade rebel leader Laurent Nkunda will be handed over to the Democratic Republic of Congo.
According to a joint statement issued by the minister after a four-day bilateral meeting by the foreign affairs ministers of both Rwanda and DR Congo that has been taking place in Rwanda, Nkunda will soon be extradited to his country Congo where he is expected to face war crime charges.
However, the statement revealed no handover date or further details on Nkunda’s extradition, which Congo requested after the renegade general was arrested on January 22 by Rwandan military.
DR Congo has endured a decade-long series of civil wars in which 5.4 million people died.
Rwanda turned on Nkunda after a December United Nations report embarrassed the government by showing that it was supporting his rebel group. The region has become the world’s deadliest killing ground since World War II.
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