2 July 2007
Statement
A military court in Lubumbashi on 28 June 2007 delivered its verdict in the Kilwa trial and acquitted the principal defendants Colonel Ademar Ilunga and 8 soldiers of war crimes in connection to the events that occurred in October 2004 in a remote part of Katanga province near Anvil Mining’s Dikulushi mine. A UN investigation found that at least 73 people, the majority of them civilians, were killed at Kilwa during the course of a counter-offensive by soldiers of the 62nd Brigade of the Congolese Armed Forces (FARDC) to crush a minor rebellion. The UN documented 28 alleged summary executions.
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