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ICC sentences Ugandan Lord’s Resistance Army leader to 25 years
The international criminal court has sentenced a former militia leader and child soldier from Uganda to 25 years in prison after he was found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity in a landmark judgment. The presiding judge, Bertram Schmitt, said the panel of judges had considered sentencing Dominic Ongwen to life imprisonment, the court’s harshest punishment, but had sided against it due to the defendant’s own personal suffering.
THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS The International Criminal Court sentenced a Ugandan former child soldier who turned into a brutal rebel commander to 25 years imprisonment Thursday, with judges saying that his own abduction as a schoolboy and history as a child soldier prevented him being sentenced to life. Dominic Ongwen was convicted in February of a total of 61 war crimes and crimes against humanity including murder, rape, forced marriage, forced pregnancy and using child soldiers as a commander in the shadowy Lord s Resistance Army. His lawyers have said they will appeal the conviction. Presiding Judge Bertram Schmitt said that judges had to weigh Ongwen s brutality and victims wishes for justice against his own tortured past when deciding on a sentence.
Former Ugandan child soldier-turned-rebel commander sentenced to 25 years at ICC
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06/05/2021 - 14:38 Dominic Ongwen, a senior commander in Uganda s Lord s Resistance Army (LRA), looks on at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, on December 6, 2016. AFP - PETER DEJONG 4 min The International Criminal Court sentenced a Ugandan former child soldier who turned into a brutal rebel commander to 25 years imprisonment Thursday, with judges saying that his own abduction as a schoolboy and history as a child soldier prevented him being sentenced to life. Advertising Read more
Dominic Ongwen was convicted in February of a total of 61 war crimes and crimes against humanity including murder, rape, forced marriage, forced pregnancy and using child soldiers as a commander in the shadowy Lord’s Resistance Army. His lawyers have said they will appeal the conviction.