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Rory Sullivan

France puts former Congolese rebel leader on trial over alleged wartime atrocities

The former Congolese rebel leader Roger Lumbala has gone on trial in Paris over his alleged complicity in crimes against humanity committed two decades in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

The 67-year-old led the Congolese Rally for National Democracy, a Uganda-backed rebel group that was active in the Second Congo War between 1998 and 2003.

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