DR Congo M23 Conflict Origins
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Sultani Makenga: The M23 leader whose career charts the turmoil in Rwanda and DR Congo
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M23 rebel leader Sultani Makenga is the subject of various war crime allegations.
He is accused of war crimes in the Democratic Republic of Congo .
His life began on Christmas Day in 1973 when he was born in Masisi in the lush Congolese town of Masisi .
Raised by parents of the Tutsi ethnic group, he quit school at the age of 17 to join a rebel outfit across the border in Rwanda .
He was absorbed into the official Rwandan army and rose to the rank of sergeant.
Makenga defected from the Congolese army to join the rising M23 rebellion.
He was elevated to the rank of an M23 general, then soon after, the top position.
He has been sentenced to death in absentia and faces the death penalty.
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