LRA Terrorist Warlord Faces Reckoning at the Hague
(CN) — The former commander of a Christian extremist group appeared before the International Criminal Court on Tuesday, more than a decade after a reign of terror that the prosecutor said “blighted the lives of millions of people living in Northern Uganda.”
The Lord’s Resistance Army is reported to have inflicted untold misery in the African continent, abducting an estimated 20,000 children by 2004, killing 100,000 civilians and displacing 1.5 million others.
Dominic Ongwen, a senior commander for the group’s Sinia Brigade, is charged with 70 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity, including murder, rape, pillaging, sexual slavery, forced marriage, torture and cruel treatment of civilians.
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