Ex-Ugandan warlord faces 20 years in jail
PROSECUTORS yesterday asked the International Criminal Court to sentence a former Ugandan child soldier who became a commander of the rebel Lord's Resistance Army to at least 20 years in prison. Dominic Ongwen, who was arrested in 2015, was convicted in February of dozens of crimes including rape, sexual enslavement, child abductions, torture and murder. In a special hearing to discuss Ongwen's punishment, prosecutors dismissed defence calls for a sentence of no more than 10 years and their argument that Ongwen is a victim because he was himself abducted as a child to fight in the LRA. Ongwen pleaded not…