https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/international-criminal-court-unveils-arrest-warrant-central-africa-militia-2024-11-07/
THE HAGUE, Nov 7 - The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday unveiled an arrest warrant against a suspected leader of a militia that attacked Muslim civilians in the Central African Republic (CAR) in 2014.
According to the warrant, made public on Thursday but issued in 2018, Edmond Beina is accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity including mass killings, murder, rape and persecution.
Prosecutors say he led a group of several hundred armed men who attacked a village in the west of the country in 2014 and killed at least 22 Muslim civilians and drove out hundreds more.
CAR has been mired in violence since a coalition of mostly northern and predominantly Muslim rebels known as Seleka, or "Alliance" in the Sango language, seized power in March 2013. Their dominance gave rise to opposing "anti-balaka" Christian militias. The ICC has been investigating the violence in CAR since May 2014. Two trials are before the court involving two other anti-balaka leaders and one Seleka leader.
https://www.icc-cpi.int/defendant/beina
Beina
About Defendant
Mr Edmond Beina, also known as BEINA of Tedoa, BEÏNA, or BAINA, a national of the Central African Republic (CAR), aged approximately 35-45 years old, reported to be from Tedoa, CAR.
Arrest warrant issued on 7 December 2018. Unsealed on 7 November 2024.
Accused Last Name
Beina
Accused First Name
Edmond
Charges
Allegedly responsible for the crimes against humanity of murder and attempted murder, extermination, deportation or forcible transfer of population, imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty, rape and attempted rape, and persecution ; and the war crimes of murder and attempted murder, intentional attack against the civilian population, pillaging, rape and attempted rape, displacement of the civilian population, and destruction of the adversarys property allegedly committed in Guen, Central African Republic, between at least 1 February to early April 2014.
Accused Crime
War crimes
Crimes against humanity
Accused States
At large
Situation Name Colloquial
Central African Republic II
Warrants HTML Link_
https://www.icc-cpi.int/court-record/icc-01/14-32
Defendant site URL
https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/central-african-republic-ii-situation-icc-pre-trial-chamber-ii-unseals-arrest-warrant-mr
Initial Order
Warrant of arrest
Warrant Links
Warrant of arrest