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The Butembo-Lubero garrison military court in North Kivu convicted twenty-five people on Tuesday, July 8th, including twenty-four soldiers and one civilian, to substantial prison sentences for rape and murder, following mobile court sessions held in the city
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Trial underway at the military tribunal of garrison in Butembo-Lubero, North Kivu, sentencing twenty-five people to long prison terms for rape and murder.
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