Division 24 Pacifique NTAWUNGUKA

(alias: a) Pacifique Ntawungula, b) Colonel Omega, c) Nzeri, d) Israel)

Designation: a) FDLR-FOCA ‘SONOKI’ Sector Commander, b) FDLR-FOCA Brigadier General.

Address: Rutshuru Territory, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo (as of June 2016).

Date of Birth: a) 1 January 1964, b) Approximately 1964.

Place of Birth: Gaseke, Gisenyi Province, Rwanda.

Nationality: Rwanda.

Date of UN designation: 3 March 2009.

Other information: Received military training in Egypt. INTERPOL-UN Security Council Special Notice web link: https://www.interpol.int/en/notice/search/un/5269021

Additional information from the narrative summary of reasons for listing provided by the Sanctions Committee:

Pacifique Ntawunguka was the commander of the First Division of FOCA, the armed wing 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). Received military training in Egypt.

As of mid-2016, Ntawunguka was the FDLR-FOCA ‘SONOKI’ Sector Commander in North Kivu province.