Congo lifted an over 20-year moratorium on the death penalty in February
BENI - Two more solders have been sentenced to death in the Democratic Republic of Congo after they fled battles in conflict-torn North Kivu province, a military court said.
The ruling, which follows the sentencing of 25 soldiers to death on Thursday, underscores the authorities' wish to show it will not tolerate the desertions that have contributed to putting Congo on the back foot in the conflict. The military tribunal said on Friday that one of the soldiers, Kakule Mupasula Raphael, had abandoned the front line in Kanyabayonga and fled. He was also found guilty of murdering the child of an officer.
"There were a lot of us soldiers who fled Kanyabayonga ... even our commanders fled too," he told Reuters. He plans to appeal the sentence.
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