itemprop=description content=A commander in DR Congo's armed forces has been sentenced to death after he was tried for violent repression of a protest against the United Nations mission on August 30, in which more than 50 people were killed.
Mikombe was sentenced to death for murder, the office of the military governor of North Kivu province said on Tuesday, October 3
Although DR Congo still has the death penalty in its penal law, reports say those sentenced to it end up serving life in prison instead of being killed.
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