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....
Bosco Ntaganda, the notorious M23 Warlord nicknamed ‘terminator’
Ntaganda was born in Rwanda in Virunga mountains range in the Musanze District.
He fled to Ngugu-Masisi in eastern DRC when attacks on his fellow ethnic Tutsi started in Rwanda. He joined Rwandan Patriotic Front rebels based in Uganda at the age of 17.
Bosco Ntaganda - or "The Terminator" - is a serial rebel and former army general in the Democratic Republic of Congo, convicted of war.
Ntaganda acquired Congolese citizenship at some point.
In the early 1990s Ntaganda fought with the Rwandan Patriotic Front of Kagame and participated in the overthrow of the Hutu led Rwandan government in 1994. Ntaganda then joined Patriotic Forces for the liberation of Congo (FPLC), the military wing of the Union of Congolese Patriots (UPC), and became it’s chief of military operations.
Ntaganda was very notorious warlord as he was involved in numerous massacres and other serious human rights abuses. He famously told child soldiers that; “When you’re a soldier, you get a woman for free. Everything is free.”
Ntaganda was offered a position as a general in