UGANDA: A REFLECTION ON ONGWEN'S TRIAL AS EX-REBEL COMMANDER'S SENTENCE HEARING NEARS
Dominic Ongwen during one of the court sessions –Photo (ICC) “I ran to the world to help, rehabilitate and heal me but when I landed into its hands, it threw a rope on my neck,” that was the sentimental statement uttered by Dominic Ongwen, a former senior Lord’s Resistance Army Rebel Commander and now a convict, at the International Criminal Court on April 15th. And his sentence hearing is due on May 6th. Ongwen, 46, who was found guilty in February this year for a total of 61 counts comprising crimes against humanity and war crimes, committed in Lukodi, Pajule, Odek and Abok in north...
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