30 05 12 Guardian.co.uk – Act now on Congo war criminals
While there is enough blame
to be shared by all parties to this conflict, Bosco Ntaganda, Sultani Makenga
and Sylvestre Mudacumura bear primary responsibility for the recent spike in
waves of violence and mass displacement.
We urge the UK government to impose
targeted sanctions against senior members of the National Congress for the
Defence of the People (CNDP) and the armed group M23.
We also urge the government to call on
the international criminal court's chief prosecutor to expand the
charges against Ntaganda to include recent massacres; to provide urgent
diplomatic leadership and logistical support to the international criminal
court, Monusco (UN stabilisation mission in DR Congo) and the Congolese
government to arrest and send Ntaganda to the Hague; and to warn the government
of Rwanda, as well as individuals and corporations known to have funded or armed
Ntaganda, the CNDP or other militia gangs in the past, to halt immediately or
face international isolation and sanctions.
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Tampa, John Hemming MP, David Amess MP, Adrian Sanders MP, Peter Bottomley MP,
Mike Hancock MP, Lord Hylton, Lord Brennan, Lord Alton, Baroness Cox, Baroness
Kinnock, Paul Rusesabagina, Rabbi Danny Rich, Peter Herbert, Rene C Mugenzi, Kanja
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