Uganda: ICC Turns to UN On Kony Arrest

23 December 2006

Kampala — FRUSTRATED by Uganda's failure to arrest Joseph Kony, the reclusive leader of the rebel LRA, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has now turned to the United Nation's Peace Corps.

Through the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO), the ICC chief prosecutor hopes to secure an arrangement to use its peacekeeping forces in Sudan and the DR Congo to arrest Kony and his four commanders indicted by the ICC for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

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