Bush has frozen the assets of two Russians, Viktor Anatolijevitch Bout, owner of the Great Lakes Business Company and Business Air Services, and Dimitri Igorevich Popov, general manager of the Great Lakes Business Company, as well as five others who are destabilizing the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Bush issued an executive order immediately blocking any assets under US jurisdiction of these to Russians accused of violating international laws on the targeting of children, impeding disarmament activities and violating the UN arms embargo.
Also targeted by the executive order was Hutu rebel leader Ignace Murwanashyaka, president of Forces Democratiques pour la Liberation du Rwanda (FDLR), accused of taking part in Rwanda's 1994 genocide, and Nkunda, a Tutsi accused of war crimes committed in 2004, who leads a rebellion from Congo's eastern hills and is reinventing himself as a protector of all Congolese excluded by the central government, Reuters reported.
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