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| ICC warns DR Congo over LRA leaders | |
| 2008-10-22 | |
| The ICC has asked the Democratic Republic of the Congo to provide it with information on efforts to capture four Ugandan rebel leaders. "(The International Criminal Court) requested today the Democratic Republic of the Congo to provide the chamber with detailed information, preferably no later than November 17, 2008 on the measures taken for the execution of the warrants," the court said in a statement Tuesday. At least some of the four wanted for war crimes, including Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) leader Joseph Kony, were believed to be based in DR Congo, it said. The ICC, which had asked Kinshasa in September 2005 to arrest the criminals, warned that it could legally make an adverse finding against a member state failing to cooperate. It said the court would then refer the matter to the Assembly of State Parties to the Rome Statute in its annual summit next month.
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