LC control no. | n 2016065292 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Katanga, Germain, 1978- |
Birth date | 1978-04-28 |
Found in | De l'affaire Katanga au contrat social global, 2015. Internet, URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germain_Katanga, Dec. 1, 2016 (Germain Katanga, born 28 April 1978, also known as Simba, is a former leader of the Patriotic Resistance Force in Ituri (FRPI), an armed group in the Ituri Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). On 17 October 2007, the Congolese authorities surrendered him to the International Criminal Court (ICC) to stand trial on six counts of war crimes and three counts of crimes against humanity.[1][3] The charges include murder, sexual slavery. On 7 March 2014, Katanga was convicted by the ICC on five counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity as an accessory to the February 2003 massacre in the village of Bogoro) |