Light is being shed on the bloody history of US interference in Africa as a pair of American citizens are being tried for their role in a failed overthrow of the leader of one of largest countries on the continent.
Light is being shed on the bloody history of US interference in Africa as a pair of American citizens are being tried for their role in a failed overthrow of the leader of one of largest countries on the continent.Tyler Thompson and Marcel Malanga, along with a number of British, Belgian, Canadian and Congolese accomplices, were sentenced Friday for their part in the audacious coup plot against Democratic Republic of the Congo President Felix Tshisekedi. The pair were charged with a number of offenses, including terrorism, murder, criminal association and illegal possession of weapons.Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against Thompson and Malanga, although the defendants are set to appeal the sentence. The DRC reinstituted the death penalty earlier this year as the country is plagued by attacks by armed groups, although the country has yet to carry out a death sentence.The pair of Americans joined a group of dozens of paramilitary fighters who descended upon the home of Congo’s parliamentary speaker Vital Kamerhe in the early hours of May 19 before heading to the presidential residence.
