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Sloppy Forensics Cloud Verdict in DRC Journalist Serge Maheshe's Murder

http://www.opednews.com/articles/...n_080524_sloppy_forensics_clo.htm

Excerpt:

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) this week supported the acquittal of two friends of Radio Okapi journalist Serge Maheshe who were accused of taking part in his murder. However, IFJ said in a press release that there were “irregularities” in the trial which precluded discovery of who, exactly, was responsible for Maheshe’s murder.

Maheshe, a journalist and Bukavu’s head of Radio Okapi, run by the United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUC), was shot and killed on June 13, 2007. He was murdered as he was about to get into a UN vehicle, in front of a friend’s house on Saio avenue in Bukavu city center. His two friends, Serge Muhima and Alain Mulimbi Shamavu, were not wounded in the attack.