Lawyers for the man dubbed Colonel Rambo say he was tortured after his arrest in the CAR last month.

Alfred Yekatom drew his pistol and fired into the air in Parliament in Bangui when police came to arrest him.

ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda say this shows the man is prone to violent acts.

He will appear again on April 30 neat year to face charges of murder, mutilation, torture and recruiting child soldiers.

Yekatom led the Christian Anti Balaka  movement fighting Muslim Seleka rebels who overthrew President Francois Bozize in 2013.

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However, her predecessor Luis Moreno Ocampo is  adamant African leaders are covering up war crimes.

Fatou Bensouda is a former justice minister in the Gambia.

Since becoming prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, she has been at pains to deny that the 14-year-old body is singling out African human rights violators for attention.

However, Gambia’s President Yayah Jammeh insists this exactly what has happened.

His Information Minister Sheriff Bojang asks why former British Prime Minister Tony Blair was not indicted over the Iraq war.

Gambia has been trying to get the European Union prosecuted for the deaths of Africans trying to reach its shores

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