I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece!
a big shot of the anti-balaka militia, wanted for crimes including murder, rebellion, rape and looting, the countrys senior prosecutor said on Sunday.
Rodrigue Ngaibona, known as Andilo, was detained in Bouca, around 300 km (195 miles) north of the capital Bangui on Saturday.
Central African Republic was plunged into chaos when the mostly Moslem Seleka
...a 'mainly' Moslem rebel force in the Central African Republic that overthrew the govt, imposed a regime of rapine and looting on the country's non-Moslem population, and was then tossed by France. They still exist, getting funding and weapons from somewhere or other, licking their wounds, complaining about the oppression of Moslems, and occasionally raping and looting someone...
rebels seized power in the majority Christian country in 2013. Abuses under their brief rule spawned a backlash from the Christian and animist anti-balaka.
A U.N. commission of inquiry, in a report published this month, found that the anti-balaka had committed ethnic cleansing in their attacks on the Moslem minority. Nearly the entire Moslem population living in the south fled the violence. Andilo is currently the most enigmatic, feared and powerful military commander of the anti-balaka, U.N. experts wrote in a report released in October.
Prosecutor Maurice Dibert Dollet said he could potentially be tried at the
International Criminal Court... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ...
in The Hague, which is investigating the violence in Central African Republic.
He was transferred to Bangui overnight and taken into custody by the judicial police, Dollet said in a statement read on state-owned radio. A warrant for his arrest had been issued in May.
Anti-balaka leaders said Ngaibonas arrest threatened reconcilation efforts, as they say they have transformed their movement into a political party.
We denounce the disorder in which international community wants to keep us in order to perpetuate the chaos in this country, said Igor Lamaka, a front man for the movement.
Central African Republic remains divided along religious lines, with a government-controlled, Christian-dominated south and a Moslem, rebel-controlled north.