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FILE - In this Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2016 file photo, Dominic Ongwen, a senior commander in the Lord s Resistance Army, whose fugitive leader Kony is one of the world s most-wanted war crimes suspects, is flanked by two security guards as he sits in the court room of the International Court in The Hague, Netherlands. Ongwen was convicted in February, 2021 of a total of 61 war crimes and crimes against humanity including murder, rape, forced marriage, forced pregnancy and using child soldiers. His lawyers have said they will appeal the conviction. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, Pool, File) Previous Next Thursday, May 06, 2021 1:40 pm Ugandan sentenced to 25 years for war crimes

LRA commander Dominic Ongwen sentenced to 25 years in prison

LRA commander Dominic Ongwen sentenced to 25 years in prison Dominic Ongwen, former child soldier-turned-Lord’s Resistance Army commander. [Photo: AFP] The International Criminal Court (ICC) has sentenced Dominic Ongwen, a former child soldier who became one of the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) s top commanders to 25 years in prison for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Uganda, Aljazeera reported today. In February, the 45-year-old Ogwen was found guilty of 61 charges including murders, rapes, and sexual enslavement during a reign of terror in the early 2000s by the LRA, led by the fugitive Joseph Kony. Announcing the 25-year prison term on Thursday, ICC Presiding Judge Bertram Schmitt said judges had to weigh Ongwen’s brutality with his own tortured past as a schoolboy abducted by the LRA when deciding on a sentence.

Ugandan former child soldier sentenced to 25 years for war crimes

The International Criminal Court has sentenced a Ugandan former child soldier who turned into a brutal rebel commander to 25 years in jail. Judges said that Dominic Ongwen’s own abduction as a schoolboy and history as a child soldier prevented him from being sentenced to life. He was convicted in February of a total of 61 war crimes and crimes against humanity, including murder, rape, forced marriage and using child soldiers as a commander in the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). His lawyers have said they will appeal against the conviction. Presiding Judge Bertram Schmitt said that judges had to weigh Ongwen’s brutality with his own tortured past when deciding on a sentence.

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