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2013-11-25 Africa Subsaharan
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Aides of DR Congo War Crimes Suspect Held for Witness Tampering
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[An Nahar] Former Congolese vice-president Jean-Pierre Bemba's lawyer and a member of his party have been tossed in the clink
Book 'im, Mahmoud!
on suspicion of tampering with witnesses in the ex-warlord's war crimes trial in The Hague, party officials said Sunday.
The chairman of Bemba's opposition party the Movement for the Liberation of Congo (MLC) said  International Criminal Court
... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ...
warrants were carried out against politician Fidele Babala Wandu in Kinshasa and lawyer Aime Kilolo at Brussels airport.
The ICC confirmed a total of four arrests had been made, including Babala Wandu and Kilolo.
MLC front man Germain Kambinga told Agence La Belle France Presse Babala Wandu was arrested at his home overnight Saturday to Sunday by security forces holding the ICC warrants.
He was being held in the prosecutor's office in Kinshasa. "We did not know about this warrant. We were all surprised, we are in shock," Kambinga said.
Following news of the arrests, members of the MLC met with the president of the National Assembly, Aubin Minaku, to discuss the "regrettable incident," Kambinga said.
The 57-year-old Babala Wandu was Bemba's private secretary when he was DR Congo's vice-president from 2003 to 2006.
Bemba's rebel army is accused of atrocities in the Central African Republic and he has been jugged
Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
by the ICC since 2008, charged with three war crimes counts and two of crimes against humanity for murder, rape and pillaging.
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