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May
25
2021
By The African Mirror
Darfur’s 1st war crimes case

Darfur’s 1st war crimes case

NEWS
STEPHEN VAN DEN BERG PROSECUTORS have accused a man of being a "feared and revered" militia leader behind a campaign of deadly raids in Sudan's Darfur conflict, in the build-up to the International Criminal Court's (ICC) first trial linked to the violence. The war crimes prosecutors said Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman was also known as Ali Kushayb, a senior commander of thousands of pro-government "Janjaweed" fighters during the height of the conflict between 2003 and 2004. Abd-Al-Rahman, wearing a face mask and a dark suit, did not speak as a court officer read out 31 charges against him including persecution,…
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May
07
2021
By The African Mirror
Ex-child soldier jailed for 25 years for war crimes

Ex-child soldier jailed for 25 years for war crimes

NEWS
ANTHONY DEUTSCH and ELIAS BIRYABAREMA THE International Criminal Court (ICC) today sentenced a former Ugandan child soldier who became a commander of the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) to 25 years in prison for crimes including rape, sexual enslavement, child abduction, torture and murder. Dominic Ongwen, who was taken into ICC custody in 2015, was convicted in February of 61 out of 70 alleged crimes. In many, the victims were women and children. Presiding Judge Bertram Schmitt said the panel had considered sentencing Ongwen to life imprisonment, the court's harshest punishment, but decided against it due to his own suffering.…
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May
05
2021
By The African Mirror
Bashir ally would prefer ICC to Sudan court for Darfur trial

Bashir ally would prefer ICC to Sudan court for Darfur trial

NEWS
ONE of the key people accused of war crimes and genocide in Darfur in the early 2000s said yesterday he would prefer to be tried in front of the International Criminal Court (ICC) rather than what he said were biased Sudanese courts. Ousted President Omar al-Bashir has for years resisted the ICC warrants against him and four close allies over the conflict in Sudan's western region that killed an estimated 300,000 people and drove 2.5 million from their homes. They face charges at The Hague of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity for atrocities committed by pro-government forces in…
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Apr
15
2021
By The African Mirror
Ex-Ugandan warlord faces 20 years in jail

Ex-Ugandan warlord faces 20 years in jail

NEWS
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…
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Apr
09
2021
By The African Mirror
Israel to tell ICC it does not recognise court’s authority

Israel to tell ICC it does not recognise court’s authority

WORLD
DAN WILLIAMS ISRAEL will tell the International Criminal Court it does not recognise the authority of the tribunal, which is planning to investigate possible war crimes in the Palestinian territories, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said yesterday. Netanyahu, after meeting with senior ministers and government officials ahead of a Friday deadline to respond to an ICC notification letter, said Israel would not cooperate with the inquiry, but it will send a response. "It will be made clear that Israel is a country with rule of law that knows how to investigate itself," he said in a statement. The response will also…
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Apr
08
2021
By The African Mirror
‘Gbagbo “free to return” to Ivory Coast’

‘Gbagbo “free to return” to Ivory Coast’

NEWS
LOUCOUMANE COULIBALY FORMER Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo and one of his close allies have permission to return home following their acquittal on charges of crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court, President Alassane Ouattara said on Wednesday. But Gbagbo's return could be complicated by a 20-year sentence given to him in absentia in November 2019 by an Ivorian court for misappropriating funds from the regional central bank. While Ouattara did not say whether Gbagbo had been pardoned, his return could ease political tensions in the world's top cocoa producing nation after an October presidential election marred by violence.…
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Mar
31
2021
By The African Mirror
Militia’s war crimes conviction upheld

Militia’s war crimes conviction upheld

NEWS
APPEALS judges at the International Criminal Court upheld on Tuesday the conviction of former Congolese militia leader Bosco Ntaganda for war crimes and crimes against humanity, and confirmed his 30-year jail sentence. "Having rejected mister Ntaganda's grounds of appeal in their entirety, the appeals chamber hereby confirms the trial chamber's sentencing judgment," presiding judge Howard Morrison said. Ntaganda's lawyers had sought to overturn his conviction, saying the original trial was riddled with legal errors. But the appeals judges dismissed all of the almost 30 grounds of appeal raised against his conviction and sentence, the longest the court has handed down.…
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Mar
09
2021
By The African Mirror
Record $30 million compensation for Congo victims

Record $30 million compensation for Congo victims

NEWS
STEPHANIE VAN DEN BERG CHILD soldiers and other victims of convicted Congolese militia leader Bosco Ntaganda should get a total of $30 million compensation, International Criminal Court judges ruled on Monday, in their highest ever reparation order. The judges said Ntaganda did not have the resources to pay the compensation himself. Instead they asked the tribunal's own Trust Fund to help set up and finance vocational and other programmes to support victims of his crimes. Ntaganda was sentenced to 30 years in prison in 2019 for murder, rape and other atrocities committed when he was military chief of the Union…
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Feb
07
2021
By The African Mirror
International Criminal Court rules it has jurisdiction over Palestinian Territories

International Criminal Court rules it has jurisdiction over Palestinian Territories

WORLD
THE International Criminal Court has ruled that it has jurisdiction over war crimes or atrocities committed in the Palestinian Territories, paving the way for a criminal investigation, despite Israeli objections. Judges said their decision was based on jurisdictional rules in the Hague-based court's founding documents and does not imply any attempt to determine statehood or legal borders. Israel, which is not a member of the court, has rejected its jurisdiction. The court's prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, said in December 2019 there was "a reasonable basis to believe that war crimes have been or are being committed in the West Bank, including…
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Feb
05
2021
By The African Mirror
‘You chop her’: A Ugandan child soldier recalls

‘You chop her’: A Ugandan child soldier recalls

NEWS
ELIAS BIRYABAREMA LOUIS Lakor was seven years old when Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army killed his family and kidnapped him to use as a child soldier. On Thursday the International Criminal Court found the commander responsible, Dominic Ongwen, guilty of war crimes. Lakor says Ongwen should be forgiven. Ugandan rebel commander found guilty of war crimes, crimes against humanity The verdict thrusts an uncomfortable spotlight on questions of culpability in a society still deeply traumatised by the militia, which rampaged through northern Uganda from 1987 to 2006. Families still grapple with the question: when does a terrified and traumatised child become…
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