Mouvement de Liberation du Congo
The Mouvement de Liberation du Congo (sometimes also Mouvement de Liberation Congolais or Mouvement pour la Liberation du Congo , dt. Movement for the Liberation of the Congo , MLC for short) is a nationalist political party in the Democratic Republic of the Congo .
influence
It was an insurgent movement that, supported by the government of Uganda, fought the government of Laurent-Désiré Kabila and later that of his son in the Second Congo War . In the transitional government after the Second Congo War, it forms an important power, its founder and leader Jean-Pierre Bemba was Vice President of the DR Congo from 2003 to 2006 after the peace treaty (2002).
During the Second Congo War, the MLC controlled large parts of the north of the Congo, in particular the province of Equateur . The city of Gbadolite there is still the party's headquarters today. In addition to the vice-president, the party provides the army chief of logistics and the chief of the national navy. Two of the ten military districts in the Congo are under the MLC.
War crimes
The movement's founder, Jean-Pierre Bemba, is indicted at the International Criminal Court on several issues allegedly committed by 1500 MLC soldiers between October 2002 and March 2003 in Central Africa . Hundreds of people (759 officially confirmed by the court) between the ages of seven and seventy are said to have been tortured, raped and killed. The trial began on November 22, 2010, the verdict was pronounced on March 21, 2016, and Bemba was convicted of crimes against humanity and war crimes.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hundreds of victims, one defendant. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . November 22, 2010. Retrieved November 23, 2010 .
- ↑ Tobias Zick: Sexual violence as a weapon of war: ex-Vice President of the Congo condemned. In: sueddeutsche.de . March 21, 2016, accessed October 13, 2018 .