Kinshasa - Nineteen soldiers have been executed for sedition or acts of banditry in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the past week, judicial sources said yesterday. Nine had been convicted and sentenced to death by a military court for murder and armed robbery and were executed on Wednesday. They included four members of the presidential guard, the sources said.
On Monday another two soldiers were executed for killing a motorist, while last Friday eight soldiers faced the firing squad after being convicted of inciting an uprising by a battalion of the army's rapid intervention brigade.