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Jean-Pierre Bemba was reportedly transferred July 3 to the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague, where he is expected to face war crimes charges. The move effectively ends Bemba’s political career while boosting the interests not only of DRC President Joseph Kabila, but also of Angola and Belgium.
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Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) political opposition leader Jean-Pierre Bemba was transferred July 3 to the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague, the Netherlands, where he is expected to face war crimes charges, Reuters reported. Bemba will see his career effectively end because of the development, while the governments of the DRC, Angola and Belgium will see their interests consolidated.

Bemba, a protege of former DRC (then Zaire) President Mobutu Sese Seko, had been the leading opposition figure in the DRC after having narrowly lost the 2006 presidential vote to incumbent Joseph Kabila. Bemba was subsequently elected to the Senate, where he led his Union of the Nation coalition before going into exile in Belgium. His transfer to The Hague comes a few weeks after Belgian authorities detained him on an ICC arrest warrant for war crimes committed in 2002 and 2003.


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