Bosco Ntaganda

Quick Facts

Full Name	Bosco Ntaganda
Occupation	Military Officer
Date Of Birth	Nov 5, 1973(1973-11-05)
Age	51
Birthplace	Rwanda
Country	Rwanda
Horoscope	Scorpio

Bosco Ntaganda Biography

Bosco Ntaganda is one of the most popular and richest Military Officer who was born on November 5, 1973 in Rwanda, Rwanda.

Ntaganda fought with the Rwandan Patriotic Army in the early 1990s and participated in the overthrow of the Hutu-led Rwandan government in 1994 following the Rwandan genocide. He subsequently joined the Patriotic Forces for the Liberation of Congo (FPLC), the military wing of the Union of Congolese Patriots (UPC), and became its chief of military operations. During this time, he is alleged to have been involved in numerous massacres and other serious human rights abuses. When Ntaganda was in charge of the UPC, he told child soldiers; “When you’re a soldier, you get a woman for free. Everything is free.”

In January 2005, Ntaganda was offered a position as a general in the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo as part of a peace process, but he refused the offer. On 1 November 2005, a United Nations Security Council committee imposed a travel ban and asset freeze on him for violating an arms embargo.

Bosco Ntaganda Net Worth

Bosco Ntaganda is one of the richest Military Officer from Rwanda. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Bosco Ntaganda 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Bosco Ntaganda (born 5 November 1973) is a convicted war criminal and the former military chief of staff of the National Congress for the Defense of the People (CNDP), an armed militia group operating in the North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). He is a former member of the Rwandan Patriotic Army and allegedly a former Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Patriotic Forces for the Liberation of Congo (FPLC), the military wing of the Union of Congolese Patriots.

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On 4 April 2012, it was reported that Ntaganda and 300 loyal troops defected from the DRC and clashed with government forces in the Rutshuru region north of Goma. On 11 April 2012, president Joseph Kabila called for Ntaganda’s arrest. On 16 March 2013, Sultani Makenga’s forces “seized control … of the town of Kibumba … Ntaganda and an estimated 200 fighters fled into the forest while hundreds of others crossed the border into Rwanda,” including “about 300 uniformed M23 rebels loyal to Ntaganda.”

Facts & Trivia

Brett Ranked on the list of most popular Military Officer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Rwanda. Bosco Ntaganda celebrates birthday on November 5 of every year.

On 18 March 2013, Ntaganda handed himself in to the U.S. embassy in Kigali, Rwanda, where he requested transfer to the International Criminal Court in The Hague. Though the reasons for his surrender are unknown it was speculated that he was either pressured to do so by Rwanda or feared infighting within the M23 movement and its military leader Sultani Makenga, which had recently militarily forced a faction around Jean-Marie Runiga Lugerero and Baudouin Ngaruye, which was allegedly connected to Ntaganda, to flee the DRC into Rwanda. Though Rwanda was not a signatory to the Rome Statute, the media speculated it would be forced to turn him over to the ICC. The U.S. also had listed him on its War Crimes Rewards Program. On 22 March, he was detained by the ICC. He made his first appearance before the ICC on 26 March. At his first appearance before the ICC in the Hague on 26 March 2013, Ntaganda denied his guilt.

Where is Bosco Ntaganda imprisoned?

Declared guilty on 8 July 2019. On 8 July 2019, ICC Trial Chamber VI found Bosco Ntaganda guilty, beyond reasonable doubt, of 18 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity, committed in Ituri, DRC , in 2002-2003. On 7 November 2019, Bosco Ntaganda was sentenced to a total of 30 years of imprisonment.

Where was Bosco Ntaganda born?

Born in Rwanda in 1973, and known as “Terminator” or “Warrior” among his troops for his tendency to lead from the front and directly participate in military operations, Bosco Ntaganda was the leader of several armed rebel groups suspected of committing atrocities in the Ituri region from the late 1990s onwards.