Jamil Mukulu, the leader Jamil Mukulu (born David Steven) is a Ugandan militant leader and suspected war criminal who was the principal founder and former leader of the Allied Democratic Forces, an armed Islamist rebel group in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Jamil Mukulu has moved from Mukulu and his commanders attacked civilians in western Uganda between and , where more than 1, people were killed and more than , people displaced, UNHCR report of says.
A convert to Islam The Tabliq faction was led by a radical young convert named Jamil Mukulu, who had been educated in Saudi Arabia, and trained in militant camps in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Partly thanks to Mukulu’s connections, the Tabliqs were able to source considerable funds from international supporters of Islamist causes, and from Sudan.
Jamil Mukulu's capture in Jamil Mukulu, 51, who heads the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a partly Islamist grouping of Ugandan origin formed in and now based in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), was arrested in Tanzania earlier this month. Uganda is seeking his extradition in order to prosecute him in the International War Crimes Division of its High Court.
James William Mugeni Of course he They first set up camp in western Uganda before moving into the DRC and received support from the Sudanese government, which had an axe to grind with Museveni. Its leader, Jamil Mukulu, was.
Jamil through loosely organized Uganda is in talks to extradite a suspected rebel warlord from Tanzania. It’s been hunting Jamil Mukulu for years – and now believes he’s the suspect that Tanzanian authorities captured last month. After almost two decades on the run, Jamil Mukulu now looks to be in custody.
Just ahead of the assault, The ADF was formed by Jamil Mukulu, an ultra conservative Ugandan Muslim belonging to the Tablighi Jamaat group. Mukulu was born as David Steven and was baptised as a Catholic, later converting to Islam, adopting a Muslim name and becoming radicalised.
As a leader of M23
M. Jamil Mukulu is the military Head of ADF. — Belgian Financial Sanctions, Arrested in April in Tanzania and extradited to Uganda in July As of September , Mukulu is reportedly being held in a police detention cell awaiting his trial for war crimes and grave breaches of the Geneva Convection under Ugandan Law.