Cameroon: ICC - Dominic Ongwen War Crime Trial Resumes

17 January 2017

By Kimeng Hilton Ndukong

People in northern Uganda are watching with keen interest as the trial of Dominic Ongwen yesterday, January 16, 2017, resumed at the International Criminal Court, ICC, in The Hague, The Netherlands. The former leading commander of the notoriously ruthless Lord's Resistance Army, LRA, rebel group, faces 70 charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity. The charges border on murder, rape, torture and abduction of children, amongst others.

The trial is being closely watched by victims of almost 30 years of terror unleashed on hapless people in Uganda and later in the Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC, and the Central African Republic, CAR. The first prosecution witnesses were in the dock yesterday after the trial opened last December. The first amongst them was a specialist on the Lord's Resistance Army and northern Uganda, with profound knowledge on local Acholi people. The witness, whose identity was concealed by court officials for his own safety, threw light on LRA.

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