Germain Katanga Germain Katanga ( born 28 April 1978 ) , also known as Simba , is a former leader of the Patriotic Resistance Force in Ituri ( FRPI ) . On 17 October 2007 , the Congolese authorities surrendered him to the International Criminal Court ( ICC ) to stand trial on six counts of war crime s and three counts of crimes against humanity . The charges include murder , sexual slavery and using children under the age of fifteen to participate actively in hostilities . Early life and family . Katanga was born on 28 April 1978 in Mambasa , Ituri Province , in the north - east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ( DRC ) . He is believed to be of Ngiti ethnicity . He is married to Denise Katanga and has two children . Patriotic Resistance Force in Ituri . In early 2003 , he emerged as the senior commander of the FRPI , a militia group which was involved in the conflict in Ituri . On 24 February 2003 , Katanga allegedly led an attack on the village of Bogoro in which rebels under his command went on an " indiscriminate killing spree " , killing at least 200 civilians , imprisoning survivors in a room filled with corpses , and sexually enslaving women and girls . It has also been alleged that Katanga helped lead other crimes , including the massacre of more than 1 , 200 civilians in an attack at Nyakunde Hospital in September 2002 . On 11 December 2004 , Katanga was one of six former militia leaders appointed as general s in the DRC army as part of a peace process . He was arrested by the Congolese authorities in early March 2005 in connection with the killing of nine United Nations peacekeepers in Ituri on 25 February 2005 . He was held without charge until his transfer to the ICC in October 2007 . On 1 November 2005 , a United Nations Security Council committee imposed a travel ban and asset freeze on Katanga for violating an arms embargo . International Criminal Court proceedings . On 2 July 2007 , a Pre - Trial Chamber of the ICC found that there were reasonable grounds to believe that Katanga bore individual criminal responsibility for war crime s and crimes against humanity committed during the Bogoro attack , and issued a sealed warrant for his arrest . He was charged with six counts of war crimes ( wilful killing ; inhuman treatment or cruel treatment ; using children under the age of fifteen years to participate actively in hostilities ; sexual slavery ; intentionally directing attacks against civilians ; and pillaging ) and three counts of crimes against humanity ( murder , inhumane acts and sexual slavery ) . On 17 October 2007 , the Congolese authorities surrendered him to the ICC and he was flown to the ICC ' s detention centre in The Hague . Katanga was the second person surrendered to the ICC since its establishment in 2002 . In February 2008 , another suspect , Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui , was surrendered to the ICC to face charges in relation to the Bogoro attack ; he and Katanga will be tried jointly . The hearing to confirm the charges against them began on 27 June 2008 . and ended on 11 July 2008 . On 26 September 2008 , Pre - Trial Chamber I confirmed some of the charges against Katanga and Ngudjolo and committed them for trial before a Trial Chamber of the Court . The trial began on 24 November 2009 .