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KINSHASA, Congo (AP) - A warlord whose rebel army terrorized civilians has been transferred to Congo's capital on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity, U.N. officials said Saturday.
Yves Kahwa Mandro, the head of a rebel faction in Ituri province, was acquitted by a court last month in the district capital but remained in U.N. custody.
On Saturday, he was transferred to Kinshasa "for security reasons," said Lt. Col. Jean-Paul Dietrich, a spokesman for the U.N. peacekeeping force in Congo.
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