00:00Nearly nine years after the killings of two United Nations experts in the Democratic Republic of Congo,
00:07the country's high military courts has delivered its final verdict.
00:11All 54 defendants charged in the murder of American investigator Michael Sharp
00:16and Swedish-Chilian expert Saida Catalan have been sentenced to death.
00:22The pair were killed in March of 2017 while investigating violence in central Kassai.
00:30According to the court, they were intercepted, accused of being traitors, and executed after being led into a trap.
00:37Among those convicted is Congolese Army officer Colonel Jean de Diobamwemny.
00:43Initially sentenced to 10 years in prison, he was handed the death penalty on appeal
00:47after judges concluded he played a key role in luring the UN experts to their deaths.
00:53While the ruling closes one of Congo's most high-profile cases, critics say justice remains incomplete.
00:59The National Human Rights Commission argues that senior figures suspected of masterminding the killings were never prosecuted.
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