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| |  | | Adémar Ilunga | | | context : | DRC  | | judgement place : | Democratic Republic of the Congo | | status : | Sentenced | | particulars : | On 28 June 2007 sentenced by a military court in Lubumbashi to life inprisonment for multiple murder of civilians; has lodged an appeal | | position : | Colonel in the 62nd FARDC Brigade |
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| | | | Colonel Adémar Ilunga, alias Kote Kubaya Kisu Makali, was the Commander of the 62nd Brigade of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (French acronym FARDC). Kote Kubaya Kisu Makali can be translated as “Evil in all respects with sharp knife”
It appears that Ilunga used to be an Katangan gendarme and was trained in Angola in the handling of weapons.
Adémar Ilunga is alleged to have been implicated in the illegal trade of copper ore from the mines in the territory of Pweto, but also in the commerce of fish, groundnuts and corn which he did by using army trucks. Prior to this, in October 2003, he was accused of having ordered retribution (by looting, murder and extortion) against the civilian population of the village of Kampangwe, located some 200 km from Kilwa on the grounds that they had been acting in complicity with the Gédéon Kyungu's Mayi Mayi militia; and also, in March 2003, against the village of Kabanga, located 80 km from Kilwa by forcibly confiscating their harvested crops.
On 14 October 2004, the town of Kilwa, situated in the mineral rich province of Katanga, came under the control of the Revolutionary Movement for the Liberation of Katanga. On 15 October, the town was retaken by the 62nd Brigade of the FARDC led by Colonel Adémar Ilunga. During this operation, the FADRC were held to be responsible for serious violations of human rights and of international humanitarian law against persons and their property (by looting, summary executions, arbitrary arrest and detention, extortion…).
The Colonel and his men are said to have summarily executed at least 25 civilians, and to have indulged in rape, torture and looting throughout the town. In a report drawn up in October 2004, but published one year later, the MONUC (United Nations Mission to Congo) described how more than 100 persons were killed during this attack. The objective, according to the report, was to “dislodge an insurrection movement which was badly organised and poorly armed and which had occupied the locality of Kilwa in the early hours of 14 October 2004”. | |     click for more... | | Trial Watch would like to remind its users that any person charged by national or international authorities is presumed innocent until proven guilty. | |  |  | | also known as : | | | Kote Kubaya Kisu Makali | | | last time seen : | | | Lumumbashi, DRC | | | period of charges : | | | 14.10.2004 - 18.10.2004 | | | judgement period : | | | 12.12.2006 | | | charges : | | | War crimes | | | profile last modified : | | | 01.10.2007 |
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