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 than two decades ago. Lumbala, 67, is accused of complicity in crimes against humanity for his role during the 1998-2003 Second Congo War, during which more than a half-dozen African nations were drawn into the globe’s deadliest conflict since World War II.

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…