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Support the development of FRTDH throughout Africa via patreon on / frtdh for the promotion and protection of human rights (extract from the website www.frtdh.org). From January 7 to February 6, 1978, 45 years ago, the trial of Marien Ngouabi, President of the People's Republic of Congo, assassinated on March 18, 1977, was held and concluded in Brazzaville. It will be 46 years on Saturday, March 18, 2023. Among the six defense lawyers, Mr. Jean Martin Mbemba, at the time 36 years old, was with others such as Alexis Bob, Julien Matongo and Gérard Devillers for the defense before the Revolutionary Court of Exception established by the eleven officers of the Military Committee of the Party (CMP). Mr. Roger Martin and Jean Claude Jacquot pleaded on behalf of the civil party. There were about ten death sentences, including the Labor Inspector Ndoudy Ganga, the accountant at ASECNA Dominique Samba Dia Nkoumbi; Hombessa André Former Minister of Youth and Interior. There were also those sentenced to forced labor for life such as Lieutenant Oscar Ewolo, Bernard Matingou and Colonel David Mountsaka. It should be noted that the main accused President Alphonse Massamba Débat was tried and sentenced on March 23, 1977 by a special court martial instituted by the Military Committee of the Party. The former president of the republic Alphonse Massamba Débat will be executed immediately with the security agents Ontsou, Nkomo, Elouo and Mboro. This same special court martial had sentenced the former Prime Minister Pascal Lissouba to forced labor for life with life assignment in the North of the country, Claude Ernest Ndalla Graille, Mayitoukou Antoine and Rubain Moungala. The following officers will be purged from the army and assigned to secondary centres with house arrest, and banned from staying in major centres. Officers such as Captain Ondziel Bangui Henri, Lieutenant Ondziel Onna Félix and Lieutenant Ossété Valence will be placed under house arrest in their village. Mr Jean Martin Mbemba, one of the six defence lawyers, therefore intervenes at the Forum in a personal capacity. He gives us an edifying account of the course of the trial 45 years later. Everyone remembers the contemptuous air of the Government Commissioner who shouts himself hoarse saying: "Even the Batékés wanted to take power". Not to mention the authority or stupidity he had in exhibiting the title kamasutra to the Court as one of the proofs of the plot in preparation, one of the books seized from Colonel David Mountsaka. The story of Me Jean Martin Mbemba will I hope be retained in the quest of historians. This is why this video is a document to follow like all those already online for years via the VIDEOFRTDH channel. March 16, 2023 at 02:23 Me Maurice Massengo-Tiassé