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Eight DR Congo troops handed desertion death sentence

Terra Daily Tuesday, 7 May 2024 ()
Goma, Dr Congo (AFP) May 3, 2024

A military court in the Democratic Republic of Congo's war-torn east on Friday handed a death sentence to eight soldiers, including five officers, for desertion and cowardice when fighting M23 rebels. Prosecutors had sought the death penalty against 11 soldiers on trial in the same case, but the Goma court acquitted three of them, ruling that the charges against those soldiers were "not esta
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