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D.R. Congo: 51 Sentenced to Death over ‘Revenge’ Killing of U.N. Staff

A military court in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (D.R. Congo) sentenced 51 people to death on Saturday for their involvement in the killings of two U.N. staff members in March 2017, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported, noting the trial’s prosecutors suggested local militiamen carried out the murders “to take revenge against the UN” for allegedly “failing to prevent attacks against them by the [D.R. Congo] army.”

This file picture taken on January 19, 2009 in Stockholm shows UN Swedish employee Zaida C