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...champagne and caviar. But Mobutu had hardly returned to Kinshasa when he announced that Mulele was not covered by the amnesty and that he would be tried as a war criminal. A military court of three judges-their names were not revealed-convened at Camp Tshatshi, Kinshasa's paracommando garrison, and after 15 hours of deliberation sentenced Mulele to death before a firing squad. The government's official explanation of the trial: Mulele had planned a Communist revolt against Mobutu with the aid of Cuban-trained rebels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congo: Death of a Rebel | 10/18/1968 | See Source »

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