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.
ICC to hand down judgment against former Lord s Resistance Army commander Reuters 2/3/2021
By Stephanie van den Berg
THE HAGUE, Feb 3 (Reuters) - War crimes judges on Thursday deliver their verdict in the case of Dominic Ongwen, a Ugandan child soldier turned top commander in the Lord s Resistance Army, a rebel group known for extreme violence and forcing women into sexual slavery.
Ongwen, 45, faces 70 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity and could be imprisoned for life if convicted. Judges will not address sentencing on Thursday.
The ruling at the International Criminal Court will be the first dealing with crimes by the LRA, New York-based Human Rights Watch said.