Congo War-Crimes Suspect Is Arrested by ICC in Paris
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A leader of an ethnic-Hutu rebel group with links to the 1994 Rwandan genocide was arrested in France for alleged war crimes committed in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the International Criminal Court said.
Callixte Mbarushimana, executive secretary of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda, or FDLR, was taken into custody at his home in Paris by French authorities today, Pascal Turlan, the court’s international cooperation adviser, said by phone from the city.