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In August 2002, it took control of the town of and known as the UPC-K, and the other under Thomas Lubanga and known as the UPC-L. The UPC-L was militarily stronger. The UPC-L was implicated in the deaths of nine Bangladesh i MONUC peacekeepers on 25 March 2005 . Lubanga was arrested along with Floribert Ndjabu , leader of the Nationalist And Integrationist Front . In March 2006, Lubanga was arrested under a warrant issued by the International Criminal Court for the alleged war crime of using child soldiers, and was flown to the Netherlands. Bosco Taganda was named its leader in his absence. Human Rights Watch states that between August 2002 and March 2003, the UPC arrested and tortured over 100 opponents, was responsible for the murder of a Kenya n peacekeeper in January 2004 and the kidnapping of a Moroccan peacekeeper later that year. In January 2005, Commander Bosco Taganda was offered a position as a general in the national Forces Armées De La République Démocratique Du Congo (FARDC), but had refused the post. EXTERNAL LINKS
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