Ntabo Ntaberi Sheka has been implicated in numerous atrocities in eastern  DRC.

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Congolese authorities have had an arrest warrant for the leader of the Mai Mai Sheka since January 2011.

Ntabo Ntaberi Sheka’s  wanted for crimes against humanity involving mass rape.

Since the warrant was issued, Human Rights Watch has documented further crimes. Government and UN officials have met with Sheka at least  three times, encouraging him to surrender but making no efforts to arrest him.

Authorities will have to protect him from former collaborators who will try to kill him in detention.

Human Rights Watch says his arrest brings hope for justice in the DRC.

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Sheka was arrested in Mutongo, in the country’s North Kivu region by the blue helmets who transferred  him to the regional capital Goma.

The UN’s peacekeeping mission in DRC, Monusco, says Sheka’s fully aware that he’s wanted by the government to stand trial for alleged crimes.

Authorities issued the warrant for Sheka’s arrest in 2011 after an attack in which the militia under his command and two other groups allegedly raped nearly 400 people in 13 villages.

His soldiers are accused of razing almost 1 000 homes and businesses and leading about 100 people off into forced labour.

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