Dominic Ongwen is the first International Criminal Court defendant to have admitted to participating in some of the crimes with which he was charged.
Dominic Ongwen at the Dec. 6 opening of his trial at the International Criminal Court (Photo by ICC-CPI via Courthouse News)
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (CN) Marking the second-longest punishment it has ever given, the International Criminal Court on Thursday sentenced a Ugandan man who commanded the Lord’s Resistance Army to 25 years in prison.
“The decision today was especially difficult and weighed on the minds of all three of us,” Judge Bertram Schmitt told The Hague-based courtroom. The world’s only permanent court for atrocity crimes convicted Onwgen of 61 charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity in February, following a trial that lasted four years.
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