The East African
Thursday February 04 2021
Dominic Ongwen, a senior commander in Uganda s Lord s Resistance Army (LRA), at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, on December 6, 2016. PHOTO | AFP
Summary
Ongwen, once a commander of the feared Lord’s Resistance Army led by Joseph Kony, is said to have committed the crimes between July 2002 and December 2005.
He was accused of maiming, killing, torturing, forced marriage, forced pregnancy and leading an army of fighters in displacing communities in northern Uganda.
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The International Criminal Court sitting at The Hague, Netherlands, has convicted Ugandan child soldier-turned-warlord Dominic Ongwen for crimes against humanity, including rape and forced pregnancy.
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Northern Uganda’s peace process looks to be on its last legs. Talks have all but collapsed between Uganda’s government and the troublesome rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), as both sides take to the bush to resume full hostilities. But have they really blown their last chance for peace? It is eight months since the Ugandan government and LRA first decided to talk to each other. For 16 years, all they had ever exchanged was gunfire. Then on 14 July 2002, the rebels held a landmark seven-hour meeting with representatives of the local Acholi Religious Leaders’ Peace Initiative (ARLPI). They said they wanted to open negotiations with the government – negotiations which could finally end Uganda’s longest, bloodiest civil conflict to date. Present were Vincent Otti, Sam Kolo and Caesar Acellam, three of the LRA’s most senior members. “We had another meeting on the 21st [July],” explains Father Carlos Rodriguez, a chief negotiator who has been in contact with the L
ICC finds LRA commander Ongwen guilty of 61 counts of war crimes
February 4, 2021 Written by URN
The former commander of the Sinia Brigade of the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), Dominic Ongwen has been found guilty on 61 of the 70 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court (ICC).
Ongwen committed the crimes during attacks in Pajule IDP camp on October 10, 2003, Odek IDP camp on April 29, 2004, Lukodi IDP camp on May 19, 2004, and Abok IDP camps on June 29, 2004.
Today, the ICC trial chamber nine composed of judges; Bertram Schmitt, Péter Kovács and Raul Cano Pangalangan said that they found beyond any reasonable doubt that Ongwen is guilty of murder,
4 February 2021, 12:00 UTC
Following today’s International Criminal Court (ICC) conviction of Dominic Ongwen, a former commander of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebel group for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in northern Uganda, Seif Magango, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for East Africa, the Horn and Great Lakes, said:
“We hope this decision provides a measure of redress for the 4,000 victims who participated in the case and who can now receive reparations for their suffering.
While this case is important, redress must extend to the thousands of victims of the LRA’s abductions, killlings and mutilations, who still have not seen justice for the harms they have suffered.
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