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Daily Monitor Thursday February 04 2021 Margaret Labol, 50, who lost 15 family members and her husband, a Uganda People s Defence Force (UPDF) soldier, during the Lukodi massacre caused by the Lord s Resistance Army (LRA) in 2004, poses for a portrait in front of the memorial for the victims of the massacre in Lukodi, Uganda, February 3, 2021. PHOTOS/ AFP Summary The memory of LRA across much of northern Uganda is that of a group that abducted children as soldiers, pillaged villages for food and material possession and conscripted girls as sex slaves. The LRA was founded three decades ago by former Catholic altar boy and self-styled prophet Kony, who launched a bloody rebellion in northern Uganda against President Yoweri Museveni. ....
Lord s Resistance Army commander guilty of Uganda war crimes By Danny Kemp with Grace Matsiko in Lukodi, Uganda LISTEN FEB 4, 2021 Dominic Ongwen was recruited by the LRA as a child. By Peter Dejong (ANP/AFP/File) The International Criminal Court on Thursday found a child soldier-turned-Lord s Resistance Army commander guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity during a reign of terror in Uganda. Dominic Ongwen, 45, was found guilty of 61 charges including multiple murders, rape and sexual enslavement by the rebel group, plus the first ever conviction by the Netherlands-based court for the crime of forced pregnancy. ICC judges dismissed defence claims that the Ugandan was himself a victim of the notorious LRA, led by the fugitive Joseph Kony, as he had been abducted by the group as a nine-year-old boy and turned into a fighter. ....