Tanzanian
authorities have detained Jamil Mukulu, the leader of the Congo-based Ugandan
Islamist rebel group Allied Democratic Forces.
Mukulu was
arrested in Tanzania after entering the country from eastern Congo. That report
coming from the Wall Street Journal.
Ugandan
police spokesman Fred Enanga said Mukulu would be tried at Uganda’s
international crimes division in Kampala after his repatriation.
He faces charges
of murder, terrorism and treason.
“We are
aware that he has committed crimes beyond our borders but it is Uganda which initiated
his arrest warrant”, said Enanga.
Tanzanian
officials are yet to comment on the development.
Mukulu, a
former Roman Catholic who converted to Islam, founded the group in the 1990s,
to topple the Ugandan government. Since the late 1990s, he and his fighters
have swept across Uganda and eastern Congo, killing thousands of people, mainly
civilians.
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| ADF leader Jamil Mukulu (seen below) has been arrested in Tanzania |
Last year,
Tanzanian forces attacked ADF rebel camps near Congo’s gold trading town of
Beni, shortly after defeating another rebel group, known as the M23 in a U.S. backed
campaign to rid the mineral-rich region of numerous militias.
A Congolese
military court tried Mukulu in absentia and sentenced him to death in November
2014, after convicting him and three others for terrorism and murder, in
relation to a spate of attacks inside Congo.
Mukulu was
put on the U.N. sanctions list in 2011 for his role in the destabilization of
Congo.