ICC Convicts Former Uganda Child Abductee-Turned Rebel Commander Bloomberg 2/4/2021 Okech Francis
(Bloomberg) The International Criminal Court convicted victim-turned-perpetrator Dominic Ongwen of war crimes committed during two decades of insurgency in northern Uganda.
Ongwen, 46, was found guilty of 61 of 70 charges, including abductions, sexual slavery, murder, rape and torture, ICC Judge Bertram Schmitt said in the verdict delivered Thursday in The Hague. The crimes relate to Ongwen’s time as a commander of the Lord’s Resistance Army rebel group that began a rebellion in northern Uganda in the 1980s.
The group, led by Joseph Kony, still operates in parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Central African Republic. The conviction brings some closure to families of the more than 50,000 children reported to have been abducted by the LRA and used as soldiers, sex slaves or sold into slavery.
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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.
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