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Ntabo Ntaberi Sheka, pictured in 2011, founded the Nduma Defence of Congo (NDC) militia active in DR Congo's restive North Kivu province. [Courtesy Reuters]
A former militia leader in the Democratic Republic of Congo was sentenced Monday to life in prison for war crimes and mass rape, a decision hailed by the United Nations as a blow against the "impunity" of armed groups in the country.
Ntabo Ntaberi Sheka was convicted of "murder, rape, sexual slavery and enlisting children under 15 years old", a military court ruled at the end of a trial that lasted two years.
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