{"id":9380,"date":"2023-10-03T15:02:15","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T15:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/?p=9380"},"modified":"2023-10-03T15:02:15","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T15:02:15","slug":"congo-colonel-found-guilty-of-murder-for-role-in-goma-massacre-in-aug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/9380\/congo-colonel-found-guilty-of-murder-for-role-in-goma-massacre-in-aug\/","title":{"rendered":"Congo colonel found guilty of murder for role in Goma massacre in Aug"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Congolese colonel has been found guilty of murder and other crimes related to the August killing of 56 people<\/a> during an army crackdown on anti-United Nations (UN) demonstrations in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a local court said.<\/p>\n

Colonel Mike Mikombe, who was head of the Republican Guard unit in the city of Goma, where the incident took place, was one of six soldiers on trial.<\/p>\n

He was sentenced to death, but the death penalty is no longer applied in Congo and is generally commuted to life imprisonment.<\/p>\n

His lawyer, Serge Lukanga, said he would appeal the decision.<\/p>\n

Three other soldiers were sentenced to 10 years of servitude. Mikombe\u2019s deputy and another soldier were acquitted.<\/p>\n

The UN peacekeeping mission in eastern Congo, known as Monusco<\/a>, has faced protests since last year, spurred partly by complaints that it has failed to protect civilians against decades of militia violence.<\/p>\n

An anti-Monusco protest in July 2022 resulted in more than 15 deaths, including three peacekeepers in Goma and the city of Butembo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Congolese colonel has been found guilty of murder and other crimes related to the August killing of 56 people during an army crackdown on anti-United Nations (UN) demonstrations in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a local court said. Colonel Mike Mikombe, who was head of the Republican Guard unit in the city of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9019,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":4,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"Reuters","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"0","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"0","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"0","show_popup_post":"0","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,1129,34],"tags":[1542,72,1468,1392],"class_list":["post-9380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-central-africa","category-security","category-society","tag-anti-united-nations","tag-democratic-republic-of-congo","tag-goma","tag-monusco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}