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2016-06-22 Africa Subsaharan
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Former Congo Leader Sentenced For Heading Rape, Murder Spree
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[NEWSWEEK] Congolese politician Jean-Pierre Bemba was sentenced to 18 years in prison by the  International Criminal Court
... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ...
on Tuesday for heading a 2002-03 campaign of rape and murder in neighboring Central African Republic.
Bemba, a former Democratic Republic of the Congo
...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo , which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material...
vice-president, is the first person that the global war crimes court has held directly responsible for his subordinates' crimes.
Judge Sylvia Steiner said troops from the Movement for the Liberation of Congo (MLC), which Bemba directed, had acted with "particular cruelty" when they rampaged through the neighboring country in support of then-president Ange-Felix Patasse. 
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