Hassan Bouba, ex-number 2 of the UPB armed group, was arrested after a prescription from the country’s special criminal court.
Le Monde with AFP
Bouba Ali Hassan, says Hassan Bouba, Minister of Livestock and Central African animal health, was arrested on Friday, November 19 in the office of his ministry by the judicial police, according to several sources close to the file that required Anonymity. Former number 2 of one of the most formidable rebel armed groups, the Union for Peace in Central African Republic (UPC), is accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity by the special criminal court (SPC), according to An order of this jurisdiction whose France-Presse agency was able to read a copy Saturday.
The Central African Republic, the world’s poorest countries, has been the theater, since 2013, a very deadly civil war, but which has dropped considerably from intensity after 2018. The SPC is a hybrid jurisdiction, Composed of Central African and international magistrates, responsible for judging the serious human rights violations in Bangui since 2003.
Attack of a camp of displaced in 2018
The “order for incarceration” of the CPS consulted by AFP, nor the anonymous sources, specify the facts that justify these “charges”. But last August, the American NGO The Sentry had stated at the end of a very detailed investigation that the head of the UPC, Ali Darassa, and his number two of the time, Bouba Ali Hassan, were directly responsible for the ‘Attack of a camp of displaced in November 2018 in Alindao, 500 kilometers east of Bangui, who had resulted in the death of at least one hundred and twelve villagers including nineteen children.
The accusations retained are extremely heavy and present it as one of the alleged authors of massacre and tortures: “war crimes” and “crimes against humanity by murders, inhuman acts” and “cruel treatments such as torture”, Only read in the order of the CPS judges who auditioned Friday and ordered his “provisional incarceration” immediately after.