CONGOLESE government ministers confirmed on Wednesday that 11 Lebanese nationals were executed in the Democratic Republic of Congo after the assassination of President Laurent Kabila, a Lebanese community source said. The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told reporters that Justice Minister Mwenze Kongolo and Foreign Minister Leonard She Okitundu had informed Lebanon’s ambassador in Kinshasa, Chehade el-Moulan, of the executions. ”The ministers of justice and the minister of foreign affairs told the Lebanese ambassador today that the 11 had been executed but that they did not know the precise details of the execution or who ordered it,” the source reported. The Congolese government has refused comment on the matter, saying it fell within the remit of a continuing investigation into the assassination. Military sources had said earlier that some of a group of 11 Lebanese who were arrested shortly after the January 16 assassination had been executed. The name of one of those arrested, Youseef Bakri, was found in the address book of the alleged assassins, one of Kabila’s bodyguards, they added. – Reuters