The Mbandaka Military Garrison Tribunal delivered its verdict in the case of the 3rd and 4th July 2005 mutiny: eight convicts received a life sentence, 20 others short-term sentences and the only female convict was sentenced to five years imprisonment. 16 convicts were acquitted.
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On 12 May 2006, Mai Mai chief « Gédéon », whose real name is Kyungu Mutanga, surrendered to MONUC Blue Helmets stationed in Mitwaba, about 300 km north of Lubumbashi, in Katanga province.
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On 10th May 2006, following allegations of the presence of armed groups leaders, MONUC Moroccan battalion led cordon-and-search operations in the Nyakasanza area of the town of Bunia, the administrative center for the Ituri district.
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MONUC was pleased to learn that Ignace Murwanashyaka, leader of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), a political wing of the Ex-FAR and Interahamwe armed groups, involved in the Rwandan genocide in 1994 and, ever since, in harassments and exactions against civilians in northeastern DRC, was detained by German authorities.
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This morning, 23 January 2006, 8 MONUC Guatemalan soldiers have been killed and 5 other injured in a firefight that took place in the Garamba Park (Haut Uélé district), in northeaster Democratic Republic of Congo. The injured peacekeepers were immediately evacuated to MONUC level II hospital in Bunia (Ituri district).
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