Africa: No Errant President Will Escape ICC Trial, Says Bensouda

19 December 2016
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Bringing justice. On December 6, the International Criminal Court (ICC) commenced the long-awaited trial of Dominic Ongwen, one of the five Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebel commanders the court indicted in 2005. ICC Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda told Sunday Monitor’s Tabu Butagira in an interview in The Hague that no president will escape the fangs of justice and deflected criticism of the court as a colonial tool targeting Africans as unfounded. Below is a slightly edited version

On December 6, the International Criminal Court (ICC) commenced the long-awaited trial of Dominic Ongwen, one of the five Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebel commanders the court indicted in 2005

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