Of the remaining 34 charges, Kwoyelo was acquitted of three murder charges and 31 other charges were dismissed.
Former Lords Resistance Army (LRA) commander Thomas Kwoyelo has bene found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The former child soldier-turned-rebel commander in the notorious LRA rebel group that maimed and killed for fun in northern and north-eastern swathes of the country between the 90s and early 2000s, was found guilty on 44 counts including murder, kidnap and pillaging.
He denied all 78 charges that were brought against him before the International Crimes Division sitting in Gulu.
Gulu, in northern Uganda, is one of the districts in the region that was terrorised by the LRA for more than two decades.
Of the remaining 34 charges, Kwoyelo was acquitted of three murder charges and 31 other charges were dismissed.
Kwoyelo, who had pleaded that he was not liable because he himself was a victim having been abducted by Kony and forced to become a cold-blooded killer, was captured in DR Congo in 2009.
In 2021, senior LRA commander Dominic Ongwen was jailed for 25 years by the ICC, which decided not to give him a maximum life sentence because he had been abducted as a child and groomed by rebels who had killed his parents.
Kwoyelo says he, too, was abducted by LRA rebels at the age of 12 while from school.
In the dock in Gulu, Kwoyelo was clad in a dark suit and red tie,. He hardly showed any emotions like he expected the verdict or that he is simply a man who has long lost his emotions.
A judge read out the names of civilians who were killed on Kwoyelo's orders.
One notorious incident was an attack on a camp for displaced civilians at Pagak in northern Uganda in 2004. Dozens of women and children were beaten to death with wooden clubs.
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Kony's highly notorious LRA claimed to be fighting to install a government based on the 10 Commandments of God.
But he would spent two decades killing and maiming his own people.
The group was notorious for chopping off people's limbs and abducting children to use as soldiers and sex slaves.
His prolonged war and atrocities displaced hundreds of thousands of people of northern Uganda, who continue to bear the brunt of the war to-date
The LRA first operated in northern Uganda then shifted to neighbouring DR Congo, and later the Central African Republic (CAR).
The group has largely been wiped out. But Kony remains elusive and appears beyond capture.
He is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for crimes against humanity.
While the government has previously extended an amnesty to LRA rebels who renounced war, Kwoyelo was not given the pamphlet and now awaits his conviction.
