Among other claims, Dominic Ongwen told the International Criminal Court that he wasn’t a bad person because he had been attacked by six lions but didn’t die.
Images show Dominic Ongwen, convicted brigade commander for the Lord’s Resistance Army, and a 2016 webstreaming in Lukodi, Uganda, of his hearing at the International Criminal Court. (ICC and Interpol via Courthouse News)
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (CN) — Raised in the Lord’s Resistance Army before becoming its leader, Dominic Ongwen sought to reduce his prison sentence for dozens of war crimes on Thursday by recounting the disturbing details of his years as a child soldier.