DR Congo court sentences 51 to death over murder of UN experts

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A military court in the Democratic Republic of Congo Saturday sentenced 51 people to death, several in absentia, in a mass trial over the 2017 murder of two UN experts in a troubled central region.

Capital punishment is frequently pronounced in murder cases in DRC but is routinely commuted to life imprisonment since the country declared a moratorium on executions in 2003.

Michael Sharp, an American, and Zaida Catalan, a Swedish-Chilean, disappeared as they probed violence in the Kasai region after being hired to do so by the United Nations. Their bodies were found in a village on March 28, 2017, 16 days after they went missing. Catalan had been beheaded. Around 3,400 people were killed, and tens of thousands of people fled their homes, before the conflict fizzled out in mid-2017.

 

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If you read or follow up this matter, those 51 perons may be protecting their indigenous right. Because of two UN whites, 51 blacks will go down. Can it happen in white man's land. Africa wake up

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