{"id":4868,"date":"2014-08-18T14:55:20","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T07:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4868"},"modified":"2014-08-18T14:55:40","modified_gmt":"2014-08-18T07:55:40","slug":"dr-congo-war-crimes-trial-of-egangela-a-test-case-of-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/central-africa\/dr-congo\/dr-congo-war-crimes-trial-of-egangela-a-test-case-of-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"DR Congo war crimes trial of Egangela &#8216;a test case of justice&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The war crimes trial in the Democratic Republic of Congo of an ex-army officer will be a test of military justice, the UN mission in the country says.<\/p>\n<p>Lt Col Bedi Mobuli Egangela is charged with crimes including murder, rape and torture allegedly committed between 2005-2006 in eastern DR Congo.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s a very symbolic case,&#8221; the UN&#8217;s Scott Campbell told the BBC.<\/p>\n<p>The former commander, known as &#8220;Colonel 106&#8221;, has denied the charges.<\/p>\n<p>Conflict in eastern DR Congo has continued long after the end of the country&#8217;s civil war in 2002 as numerous armed groups compete for the control of the area&#8217;s rich mineral resources.<\/p>\n<p>Col Egangela was a militia leader who was incorporated into the army as part of peace deal, becoming the commander of the 106th battalion&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"DR Congo News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-28792436\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Central Africa <a title=\"Democratic Republic of Congo\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/central-africa\/dr-congo\/\">Democratic Republic of Congo<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The war crimes trial in the Democratic Republic of Congo of an ex-army officer will be a test of military justice, the UN mission in the country says. Lt Col Bedi Mobuli Egangela is charged with crimes including murder, rape and torture allegedly committed between 2005-2006 in eastern DR Congo. &#8220;He&#8217;s a very symbolic case,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[278],"tags":[3637,258,256,3631,4696,3635,3633,281,4691,450,279,3630,3629,3636,304,257,305,3634,3632,254,265,3628],"class_list":["post-4868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dr-congo","tag-106th-battalion","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bedi-mobuli-egangela","tag-central-africa","tag-col-egangela","tag-colonel-106","tag-democratic-republic-of-congo","tag-dr-congo","tag-dr-congo-news","tag-drc","tag-lt-col-bedi-mobuli-egangela","tag-military-justice","tag-militia-leader","tag-murder","tag-news","tag-rape","tag-rich-mineral-resources","tag-scott-campbell","tag-south-africa-today","tag-torture","tag-war-crimes-trial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}