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45 year old Ongwen aka the White Ant is charged with 70 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity, for atrocities committed in the Northern region. The case is the first at the ICC to involve an alleged perpetrator and victim of the same war crimes, with Ongwen himself having been abducted by the rebels as a child while on the way to school and trained to do the acts he did. His defense lawyers have since argued that he cannot be held responsible for atrocities he was trained and convinc...

Daily Monitor Thursday February 04 2021 Summary 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. Advertisement The International Criminal Court will hand down its verdict Thursday on a Ugandan child soldier-turned-Lords Resistance Army commander accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Dominic Ongwen, 45, faces 70 charges over a reign of terror in the e...

Victims of Ugandas notorious warlord hail ICC guilty verdict Issued on: 04/02/2021 - 18:23 Lords Resistance Army ex-commander Dominic Ongwen sits in the courtroom of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Netherlands February 4, 2021. © via REUTERS - ICC-CPI Handout 4 min The International Criminal Court on Thursday found a child soldier-turned-Lords Resistance Army commander guilty of war crimes and crimes against ...

Lords 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-Lords 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 sexu...

Attacks against civilians were justified by the reasoning that they were associated with the Government and were therefore the “enemy” of the insurgents, the ICC said in a statement, noting also that LRA soldiers were “under orders to shoot civilians in the chest and head to ensure that they died”. According to the ICC verdict summary, “in response to the question whether shooting a civilian during the course of an attack would constitute an offence, Witness P-0142, an LRA fighter, st...

Daily Monitor Monday February 01 2021 Advertisement                                                                        KAMPALA-  The International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague will this week deliver its verdict on Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebel commander Dominic Ongwen on war crimes and Ugandans in northern region will watch  a live stream.   Ongwen is facing 70 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in northern Uganda du...

Daily Monitor Saturday January 30 2021 Security personess inspect a truck that was impouded with suspected stolen animals in Nwoya District 2018. PHOTOS/ FILE Advertisement On April 8 last year, Moses Onono, a livestock farmer and owner of Homa Farm in Omel A Village, Paicho Sub-county, Gulu City, woke up to the sight of cuttings in his fence as he went about his routine checks on the herd. Inside the kraal, something was terribly wrong, 25 of his 38 exotic bulls were missing.    About 700 me...

Daily Monitor Friday January 29 2021 The vehicle of the NRM mobiliser that was set ablaze at Ayago Bridge in Nwoya District last week. PHOTO /DENIS OMONY. Summary Mr Owachgiu said unknown people ambushed him on his way from Migyera in Nakasongola District to Ayago Bridge in Nwoya. Advertisement The Nissan pick-up truck of Mr Charles Owachgiu was carrying Mr Museveni’s campaign posters. Mr Owachgiu said unknown people ambushed him on his way from Migyera in Nakasongola District to Ayago Bridge...

Why 12 MPs lost bid for re-election in Acholi Thursday January 28 2021 Summary The lawmaker reportedly started feeling unwell last Saturday, two days after he lost his bid to represent the people of Aruu County in Parliament. Advertisement On Tuesday, January 19, Mr Samuel Odonga Otto, the Aruu County Member of Parliament, was taken to Gulu Regional Referral Hospital in Gulu Town after he collapsed while recording a statement at Pader Central Police Station in Pader District. The lawmaker repor...

Ongwen was known as one of the more ruthless commanders of the rebel group the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). He is from northern Uganda. His family indicates that he was born in 1980 and that the rebel group abducted him on his way to school in 1990, when he was about 10. Senior LRA leaders gave him military training, and he eventually became an LRA commander. After LRA forces left northern Uganda in 2005 and 2006, troops under Ongwen’s command repeatedly terrorized communities in Congo’s...