For the first time, a Congolese national is being tried in France, before the Paris criminal court, for crimes committed in 2002 and 2003 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

For the first time, a Congolese national is being tried in France, before the Paris criminal court, for crimes committed in 2002 and 2003 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

PARIS: Former Congolese rebel leader Roger Lumbala went on trial in France Wednesday over atrocities committed in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s bloody eastern conflict more…