DR Congo military court sentences ex-president to death
Joseph Kaba, the former President of the Republic of Congo, was sentenced to death by a military court that condemned him of war crimes, betrayal and crimes against humanity.
The case, Rwanda supported M23 rebels. It stems from the role of Congo in supporting its progress in the variable east.
From 2001 to 2019, Dr. Kaba, who led the Congo, refused to do wrong and said that the judiciary was politicized.
Lieutenant Joseph Mutombo Katalayi, who chaired the court in Kinshasa, said Kaba was found guilty of charges, including murder, sexual assault, torture and uprising.
Kabul did not attend the hearing and was not represented by the Legal Advisor.
Neither he nor the representatives were not available to comment immediately.
Where he was unknown where he was.
Katalayi, “Article 7 of the Military Criminal Code, while applying a single sentence, that is, the most severe the death penalty applies the most severe.” He said.
In addition, the state and victims were ordered to pay about $ 50 billion ($ 76 billion) at various damages.
The decision may lead to further division in the Central African country, rich in large minerals that have endured decimal years.
Kaba spent almost twenty years of power and resigned only after the deadly protests against him.
Since the end of 2023, in May, he has been living in South Africa, although he appeared in the rebellious Goma in East Dr Congo.
He entered a strange power sharing agreement with his successor Felix Tshisekedi, but his relationship was supported in a short time.
M23, East in February While walking in the second largest Bukavu city of Congo, Tshisekedi said that Kaba sponsored the Munich Security Conference.
M23 is now controlling most of the northern kiwi and southern kiwi states.
The fight killed thousands of people and this year, hundreds of thousands of people more.
Resources told Reuters, the two sides strengthen their positions and blame each other to break the agreement.
Rwanda refused to help M23 for a long time, Dr. He says he has been acting in defense against Congo’s army and ethnic Hutu militias of the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
Tshisekedi’s government took action to suspend Kaba’s political party and seize the assets of its leaders.
