{"id":53008,"date":"2025-02-14T21:22:14","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T21:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/212-fardc-soldiers-sentenced-to-death-for-fleeing-m23-battlefield\/"},"modified":"2025-02-14T21:22:04","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T21:22:04","slug":"212-fardc-soldiers-sentenced-to-death-for-fleeing-m23-battlefield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/212-fardc-soldiers-sentenced-to-death-for-fleeing-m23-battlefield\/","title":{"rendered":"212 FARDC soldiers sentenced to death for fleeing M23 battlefield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These soldiers were captured at different times after retreating from combat against the M23 rebel group in South Kivu.<\/p>\n<p>The military prosecution had charged them with offenses including desertion, murder, attempted murder, and sexual violence.<\/p>\n<p>However, 72 soldiers were acquitted after the court found no evidence linking them to any of the alleged crimes.<br \/>\nAdditionally, 90 other soldiers are currently on trial at the Military Court of Uvira in South Kivu, also facing charges related to desertion.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-81694 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/pic-14.jpg\" alt=\"MONUSCO has trained FARDC officers and troops in military strategies and war tactics but many of them keep fleeing.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The High Military Court of Bukavu, in South Kivu Province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), has sentenced 212 FARDC soldiers to death and imposed a $200,000 fine on them for fleeing the battlefield.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":2000081693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-53008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000081693,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-289.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-289.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-289.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-289.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-289.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-289.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000081693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53008"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=53008"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=53008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}