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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2017-396/annex/division-a/division-14",
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  "legislation": "eur/2017/396",
  "legislation_title": "Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/396 of 7 March 2017 implementing Article 9(5) of Regulation (EC) No 1183/2005 imposing certain specific restrictive measures directed against persons acting in violation of the arms embargo with regard to the Democratic Republic of the Congo",
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  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Leopold MUJYAMBERE",
  "text": "(alias: a) Musenyeri b) Achille c) Frere Petrus Ibrahim)\nDesignation: a) FDLR-FOCA Chief of Staff, b) FDLR-FOCA Interim Deputy Commander.\nAddress: Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo (as of June 2016).\nDate of Birth: a) 17 March 1962, b) Approximately 1966.\nPlace of Birth: Kigali, Rwanda.\nNationality: Rwanda.\nDate of UN designation: 3 March 2009.\nOther information: Became acting FDLR-FOCA Deputy Commander in 2014. Captured in Goma, DRC by Congolese security services in early May 2016 and transferred to Kinshasa. INTERPOL-UN Security Council Special Notice web link: https://www.interpol.int/en/notice/search/un/5224709\nAdditional information from the narrative summary of reasons for listing provided by the Sanctions Committee:\nLeopold Mujyambere was Commander of the Second Division of FOCA, the armed branch of the FDLR. As military leader of a foreign armed group operating in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, he impeded the disarmament and the voluntary repatriation and resettlement of combatants, in violation of Security Council resolution 1857 (2008) OP 4 (b). In evidence collated by the UNSC DRC Sanctions Committee Group of Experts, detailed in its report of 13 February 2008, girls recovered from FDLR-FOCA had previously been abducted and sexually abused. Since mid-2007, FDLR-FOCA, which previously recruited boys in their mid to late teens, has been forcefully recruiting youth from the age of 10 years. The youngest are then used as escorts, and older children are deployed as soldiers on the frontline, in violation of Security Council resolution 1857 (2008) OP4 (d) and (e).\nIn June 2011, he was the FOCA Commander of the South Kivu operational sector, then called ‘Amazon’. He was later promoted to FOCA Chief of Staff, and then acting Deputy Commander in 2014. He was captured in Goma, DRC by Congolese security services in early May 2016 and transferred to Kinshasa.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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