Overview

• Kabila is being tried before the Tribunal Militar Superior in Kinshasa on charges including treason, participation in an insurrectional movement, war crimes, murder, rape and torture.
• Auditor general Gen. Lucien René Likulia described Kabila as the intellectual author of abuses attributed to M23, citing killings, rape and torture.
• The prosecution also asked for 20 years for advocacy of war crimes, 15 years for conspiracy, immediate detention and confiscation of assets.
• Congo’s Senate lifted Kabila’s parliamentary immunity in May after the government in April suspended his PPRD party and ordered seizures of its property.
• Recent efforts to restart talks include a June ministerial accord with Rwanda and a July Doha declaration with M23, which says further dialogue depends on prisoner releases.