The leaked UN experts' report says the FDLR is being resupplied with sophisticated weaponry through Burundi.
The ICC said Mbarushimana "has held senior positions in the political leadership of the FDLR" since 2004.
The arrest this month in Germany of the FDLR's political leader, Ignace Murwanashyaka, on terror charges was another blow.
The governments of Congo and Rwanda, backed by MONUC, agreed to squash, curb or harass the FDLR into irrelevance.
Senior MONUC officers note that hundreds of FDLR fighters have turned themselves in.
She is also accused of transferring money to the mainly ethnic Hutu FDLR rebels, based in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo.
Second, the U.S. must help finish the job it started and support the apprehension of the leadership of the LRA and FDLR.
But the bitter conflict has continued unabated and Congolese government troops, backed by thousands of UN peacekeepers, have failed to defeat the FDLR rebels.
Two operations this year, launched first by Rwandan and Congolese forces and then by MONUC alongside the Congolese army, have squeezed the FDLR's room for manoeuvre.
Almost everyone agrees that reining in the various Hutu militias, especially the FDLR, is a necessary step if relations between Kigali and Kinshasa are to be improved.
He is particularly incensed by what he sees as collusion between one of those Hutu groups, the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR, ) and the Congolese government.
The FDLR's Col Michel Habimana also testified that the charges were solely intended to bar Ms Ingabire from the August 2010 elections, Mr Edwards said, according to the AFP news agency.
Notorious Tutsi warlord Gen Laurent Nkunda - who most analysts believe was backed by Rwanda - waged a campaign to destroy Hutu rebels from the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR).
Warring insurgent groups, such as the Ugandan-based Lords Resistance Army (LRA) and the Hutu-backed militia known as FDLR, operating in the eastern DRC are a main source for instability in the region, the agency said.
Certainly, the LRA and FDLR are incorrigible militias responsible for some of the worst human rights atrocities of the last half century, and the responsible use of international military force is a required part of their neutralization.
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