Kinshasa, Oct. 1 -- Joseph Kabila, former president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), was sentenced to death in absentia by the country's High Military Court on Tuesday, on charges including treason and crimes against humanity.
According to the verdict, Kabila was found guilty of multiple offenses, such as participation in an insurrectional movement, intentional homicide, torture, rape, and forced occupation of the city of Goma, provincial capital of North Kivu, now controlled by the March 23 Movement (M23) rebels.
Kabila also received a 15-year prison term for conspiracy, while the court pronounced the death penalty for the other charges.
The trial, which opened in July following the lifting of Kabila's parliamentary immuni...