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Mar
06
2024
By STEPHANIE VAN DEN BERG
ICC allows in absentia hearings in case against Ugandan warlord Kony

ICC allows in absentia hearings in case against Ugandan warlord Kony

NEWS
JUDGES at the International Criminal Court (ICC) ruled that prosecutors can bring a hearing on charges against fugitive Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony in his absence on October 15. Kony, the founder and leader of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), is the ICC's longest-standing fugitive. An arrest warrant was issued against him in 2005. ICC prosecutors are looking to charge Kony with 36 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity including murder, rape, using child soldiers, sexual slavery, forced marriage and forced pregnancy. Led by the now 62-year-old Kony, the LRA sowed fear among Ugandans for nearly 20 years as…
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Mar
09
2023
By The African Mirror
Who is Joseph Kony? The altar boy who became Africa’s most wanted man

Who is Joseph Kony? The altar boy who became Africa’s most wanted man

THOUGHT LEADERSHIP
ELEVEN years ago, a documentary catapulted the name Joseph Kony onto the global stage. The controversial film Kony 2012 told the story of a Ugandan warlord whose forces are believed by the United Nations to be responsible for the deaths of more than 100,000 people, the abduction of at least 20,000 children and the displacement of more than two million people Though most of the world hadn’t heard of Kony before then, Ugandans knew and feared him. The founder of the Lord’s Resistance Army unleashed a wave of violence across northern Uganda for two decades. Authors DENNIS JJUUKO, Doctoral Candidate,…
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Apr
16
2021
By The African Mirror
No apology from ex-warlord

No apology from ex-warlord

NEWS
A former Ugandan child soldier who became one of the top commanders of the rebel Lord's Resistance Army told judges at the International Criminal Court yesterday that he was not responsible for any atrocities and felt powerless to stop them. In a defiant, sometimes meandering, unsworn statement to the court, Dominic Ongwen cast himself as a victim, saying he could not ask forgiveness for his alleged crimes because he was not responsible for them. LRA warlord Joseph Kony in 2011. Picture: Adambearne/Flickr "I cannot ask everyone in northern Uganda for forgiveness when there were other people in northern Uganda who…
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Feb
06
2021
By The African Mirror
Dominic Ongwen and the Lord’s Resistance Army

Dominic Ongwen and the Lord’s Resistance Army

NEWS
BEN PARKER DOMINIC Ongwen could face decades behind bars after his conviction today at the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity and war crimes – committed arguably by a victim of extreme child abuse. Ongwen was aged about 10 when he was abducted, around 1993, by Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army, rising to become a commander in the Ugandan armed group, notorious for its abuses against civilians. Specific attacks on civilians and displaced people’s camps formed the core of the legal case against Ongwen, which began in December 2016. Ongwen faced charges including “murder and attempted murder; torture; sexual slavery; rape; enslavement;…
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