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51 condemned to death in DRC for 2017 murder of UN researchers

UN experts Zaida Catalan and Michael Sharp were killed in Kasai, DR Congo while investigating mass graves BERTIL ERICSON, TIMO MUELLER TT News Agency/AFP/File

The military court of Katanga in southern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has sentenced 51 people to death over the murders of two United Nations researchers who were carrying out an investigation into violence in the Kasai region in 2017.

The judgement, after a four-year trial, was read on Saturday in by General Jean Paulin Ntshayokolo against a number of former militiamen of the Kamuina Nsapu sect.

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