The Prosecutor, International Criminal Court (ICC), Fatou Bensouda, has welcomed the transfer of Congolese warlord Bosco Ntaganda to The Hague to face charges for a range of alleged war crimes. The crimes include rape, murder and the recruitment of children as soldiers.Ntaganda had been indicted by the ICC on seven counts of war crimes and three counts of crimes against humanity which were committed in the Ituri province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) between 2002 and 2003.
Media reports have claimed he was on the way to the ICC detention centre in The Hague in the Netherlands from Kigali in Rwanda. He had turned himself in at the U.S Embassy in Kigali on Monday.
"This is a good day for victims in the DRC and for international justice," Bensouda said in a statement at the UN Headquarters in New York. Today, those who are alleged to have long suffered at the hands of Bosco Ntaganda can look forward to the future and the prospect of justice taking its course," the prosecutor said.