[Link] Dozens have finally been sentenced over the 2017 murders of two UN investigators in the Congo

Read: 30/1/2022 www.abc.net.au

About 50 people have been sentenced to death, many in absentia, in Democratic Republic of Congo in connection with the murders of UN experts Zaida Catalan and Michael Sharp in 2017, according to a defence lawyer in the case.

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[Link] A Mexican Cartel Was Driven Out of Town By Indigenous Vigilantes Called ‘El Machete’

Read: 15/8/2021 www.vice.com

PANTELHO, Mexico - As smoke curled from neighboring buildings that had been ransacked and torched the day before, a couple of thousand Indigenous people armed with makeshift weapons gathered around city hall to hear their leaders speak.

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