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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 convinced to commit and have asked for him to be acquitted.

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-Lord's Resistance Army commander accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Dominic Ongwen, 45, faces 70 charges over a reign of terror in the early 2000s by the LRA, whose fugitive chief Joseph Kony waged a bloody campaign to set up a state b...

Victims of Uganda's notorious warlord hail ICC guilty verdict Issued on: 04/02/2021 - 18:23 Lord's 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-Lord's Resistance Army commander guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity during a reign of terror in Uganda. Victims and rights groups hailed the verdict as "his...

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 f...

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, stated that ‘nobody would see it as a crime if a civilian is injured or if a civilian is shot at’....