A military court has sentenced 49 people to death -- while one officer will receive 10 years in prison -- following an investigation into the 2017 murders of two UN experts in the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to Human Rights Watch
One of the men was sentenced to death for"criminal conspiracy, participation in an insurrectionist movement, terrorism and the war crime of murder," the president of the military court said in the conviction.HRW, however, says the court and Congolese State have failed to investigate the"higher up the broader chain of command overlooking state responsibility," and that"more questions than answers remain" despite Saturday's verdict.
UN experts Zaida Catalan, from Sweden, and Michael Sharp, from the US, were investigating large scale human rights violations in the Kasai region as members of the UN Group of Experts on Congo before the Congolese government announced on March 13, 2017 that they were captured by"unidentified negative forces." Read MoreTwo weeks later, UN peacekeepers discovered their bodies along with those of their local interpreter, Betu Tshintela, outside Kananga.
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