A leader of the Rwandan FDLR rebel group has been arrested in France on war crimes charges, the International Criminal Court says.
In a sealed warrant, Callixte Mbarushimana is accused of 11 counts of murder, rape and other crimes committed during the long conflict in DR Congo.
He last year told the BBC he denied any responsibility for war crimes and said FDLR fighters did not attack civilians.
FDLR fighters were recently accused of raping hundreds of people in DR Congo.
Again, the mainly Hutu FDLR (Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda) denied links to the attacks around the eastern Congolese town of Luvungi.
Some FDLR leaders have been accused of taking part in the 1994 genocide of ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus in Rwanda.
After a Tutsi-dominated group took power in Rwanda, they fled into what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo, sparking years of unrest in the region.
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