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Migamba Case (DRC): when mining exploitation leads to mass crimes
04.01.2021 - (Last modified: 13.01.2021)After a two-year-long trial, hundreds of victims still need you in DRC!
07.12.2020 - (Last modified: 14.12.2020)DRC: Sheka and his accomplice receive life sentences, victims are finally recognized
23.11.2020 - (Last modified: 02.12.2020)Towards ending corporate impunity?
16.10.2020 - (Last modified: 26.11.2020)20 years imprisonment and 42 recognized victims in the Hamakombo case (DRC)
22.09.2020 - (Last modified: 13.01.2021)DRC: three militiamen convicted in Kalehe
07.09.2020 - (Last modified: 08.09.2020)Giving close support to victims in DRC
21.08.2020 - (Last modified: 20.08.2020)Alexis Thambwe Mwamba
27.07.2020
FACTS
During the Second Congolese War (1998-2003), Alexis Thambwe Mwamba was a member of the rebel group Rassemblement congolais pour la démocratie (Movement for the Liberation of Congo, or RCD) led by Jean-Pierre Bemba.
In October 1998, a plane from the company Congo Airline was shot down with 50 persons on board. The RCD, through the voice of Thambwe Mwamba, cla...