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Mobile court offers the rare chance of justice for east Congo rape victims

Mobile court offers the rare chance of justice for east Congo rape victims

CRISPIN KYALA A large crowd gathered around the open sides of the makeshift courtroom in the eastern Congolese village of Kamanyola in early March to watch the culmination of a trial of 15 military officers for the rape of minors. They watched in silence, some craning to see better, as a soldier stripped the epaulettes of a colonel whom a judge had just ordered be dishonourably discharged from the army and sentenced to seven years in prison for raping a local 14-year-old girl last September. "The fact that a very high-ranking officer has been sentenced is a very eloquent message…
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