Early Life
Ntaganda was born in the small town of Kiningi, situated in the foothills of Rwanda's Virunga mountain range. When he was a teenager, he fled to Ngungu in eastern DR Congo after attacks on his fellow ethnic Tutsis started taking place in Rwanda. He attended secondary school there but did not graduate; at the age of 17, he joined the Rwandan Patriotic Front rebels in southern Uganda. At some point he acquired Congolese citizenship.
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