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Rebels sentence five to death

    NAIROBI

    A court martial in Goma on Wednesday sentenced five people to death, according to a Rwanda News Agency (RNA) report based on an announcement yesterday by rebel-controlled Goma radio. The five - three civilians and two rebel soldiers - were members of a gang of seven bandits who had been terrorising Goma, harassing people, and carrying out armed robberies, according to the radio station, which said the two soldiers, tried in absentia, were on the run. A policeman and a fourth civilian were sentenced to jail terms of 20 years and two years respectively, RNA quoted the radio as reporting. The trial lasted three days.

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