Abdoulaye Yerodia Ndombasi (/æbduːˈlaɪ ɪndoʊmbɑːˈsiː jɪˈroʊdjə/ ⓘ; 5 January 1933 – 19 February 2019)[1] was a Congolese politician who served in the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1999 to 2000 and as Vice-President from 2003 to December 2006.
In 2003 he became one of the four vice-presidents of Congo under the transitional government as mandated by a peace settlement with rebel groups and opposition parties.
Yerodia was involved in a precedent-setting case by the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
In 1998, Yerodia publicly encouraged the Congolese population to kill members of a rebellion against the government, primarily ethnic Tutsis.
However, some human rights groups saw this decision as a blow to universal jurisdiction.