The Public Prosecutor of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is looking for the death penalty for former leader Joseph Kabila Politics News

The Congolese Military Auditor is asking the court to condemn Kabila for the death of war crimes, including killing and torture.

The military prosecutor in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is calling for the death penalty for former President Joseph Kabila, who is being tried in the absence.

On Friday, General Lucian Rene Likolia, the Congolese military auditor, called on the judges to condemn Kabella to death for treason and military crimes, including killing, torture and organizing a rebellion.

The former president of the trial in his absence in July for his alleged support for Rwanda -backed M23 rebels, who seized large areas of the Republic of the Congo rich in minerals this year.

Capella, who was outside the Democratic Republic of the Congo for two years, is also accused of planning to overthrow President Felix Chesikde and other war crimes associated with the M23 group.

The shipping paper against him, which was seen by the News Agency to Agence France Presse, also included “the forced occupation of the city of Gouma”, which was arrested by M23 fighters in January before agreeing to a ceasefire with the government in July.

Kabella condemned the trial, and described the courts as a “tool for repression.”

“It is an indisputable act and persecution against a member of the opposition,” Ferdinand Campery, Minister of Political Party in Kabila, told Reuters on Friday.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo raised the death penalty last year, but judicial executions have not been carried out since then.

Minds behind M23?

Capella spent nearly two decades before step down in 2018. It has been abroad since late 2023, most of them in South Africa.

He declared that he was returning to the Democratic Republic of the Congo to help pressure for peace in the East, which was transferred to the war in April. The government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo moved quickly to ban his political party later that month, and seized its origins.

In May, the Senate voted in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to raise it Immunity from the claim.

Capella appeared in the east, which is controlled by rebel in late May, where local religious leaders met the presence of M23 spokesman Lawrence Canuka.

TSHISECEDI, his successor as president, described the brains behind the armed group, which seized cities in the east rich in resource, with the help of Rwanda.

The shipping paper was described as “one of the two coalitions of the Congo River” (AFC) and the political M23 arm, accusing him of colluding with Rwanda to try to “overthrow the force the force set by law.”

Kabella also accused the responsibility for the atrocities committed by the movement in the northern and southern provinces of Kevo.

Rwanda denied providing military support for M23, however UN experts say Her army played a “decisive” role in the group’s attack in the area.

AFC and M23 CEO, Benjamin Mabbunaba, distanced Kabila in comments on journalists in Goma in July, and he refused to try him as part of a “malicious strategy” against him.

Capella ruled the Democratic Republic of the Congo between 2001 and 2009, following power after the assassination of his father, Laurent Capella.

Although he left the country in 2023, the former leader still has an impact on Congolese political life. The TSHISECEDI government has criticized as a “dictatorship”.

For more than three decades, the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo was merged due to the conflict between the various armed groups. The disturbances have been intensified since M23 returned in 2021.