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16 March 2020 by Thijs Bouwknegt and Barbora Holá
Dominic Ongwen: the ICC’s Poster and Problem Child Last week, the International Criminal Court (ICC) heard the closing arguments in the trial of Ugandan Dominic Ongwen, five years after his first appearance. In no other ICC trial have case narratives been so opposite, morally comp [...]
9 March 2020 by Grace Matsiko
12 years on, Uganda’s International Crimes Division has little to show While the International Criminal Court hears this week the closing arguments in the trial of former Ugandan LRA rebel Dominic Ongwen, the trial of LRA Thomas Kwoyelo is announced to resume today in Uganda, following years of frust [...]
24 February 2020 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Ongwen trial: can the victims see a light at the end of the road? What can happen after this, for the communities? This week at the International Criminal Court (ICC), prosecution and defence will be presenting their final arguments in the long distance trial of Dominic Ongwen, a former commande [...]
22 October 2019 by Grace Matsiko and Ephrem Rugiririza
ICC/Uganda: “Ongwen was and still is a victim,” says lawyer For the past year, Ugandan Dominic Ongwen has been presenting his defence before the International Criminal Court (ICC). To date, more than 50 witnesses have testified in the defence of the former Lord's Resistance Army brigade co [...]
20 November 2018 by Grace Matsiko
Kwoyelo Trial: Frustration on all sides The trial of Thomas Kwoyelo, a former commander of Uganda’s rebel group Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) has been adjourned to February 2019, only two days after it started. This has caused unease among the victims of the two-decade a [...]
13 November 2018 by Grace Matsiko
LRA’s victims: “We ask those handling this case not to delay it again” The trial of the former operations commander of Uganda’s notorious rebel group, the Lord’s Resistance Army Thomas Kwoyelo begun on November 12 in the country’s Northern town of Gulu, once the epicenter of the group’s armed activit [...]
10 November 2018 by Ephrem Rugiririza
Uganda faces first test with Kwoyelo LRA trial  In Uganda, the trial of former LRA rebel commander Thomas Kwoyelo is set to start on Monday November 12 in the northern town of Gulu. Kwoyelo, who has been in detention since 2009, is the first person to be brought before a specia [...]
20 September 2018 by Janet H. Anderson
Dominic Ongwen, the imperfect poster child of the ICC On September 18, the defence of Dominic Ongwen has begun to present its case before the International Criminal Court. Of the five leaders of Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance Army indicted by the ICC, Ongwen is the only one in the dock. [...]
27 July 2018 by AFP
Uganda's Museveni set for 'life presidency' after court ruling A lawyer for a group of Ugandan opposition leaders has warned that President Yoweri Museveni, 73, is heading for a "life presidency" after a court upheld a constitutional amendment scrapping presidential age limits. Previously the [...]
27 July 2018 by AFP
Uganda court clears way for Museveni to run for sixth term A court in Uganda cleared the way for President Yoweri Museveni, 73, to run for a sixth term when it upheld on Thursday a constitutional change that scrapped presidential age limits. Previously the law required presidential conten [...]
29 March 2018 by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
Ugandan ex-rebel leader not mentally ill, experts tell the ICC The first stage of Dominic Ongwen’s trial is coming to an end before the International Criminal Court (ICC). In mid-April, prosecutors will call their last witness, and then it will be the turn of the defence to present its case. [...]
15 March 2018 by AFP
Ugandan MP forced to apologise for 'beat your wife' remark A Ugandan lawmaker apologised Wednesday after encouraging men to beat their wives to "discipline" them, in comments that sparked an outcry in the east African nation. The MP, Onesmus Twinamasiko, wrote in a letter to parliament th [...]
28 August 2017 by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
ICC should give victims free choice of lawyers, says Human Rights Watch In a new report, Human Rights Watch argues that victims should have free choice of lawyer to represent them at the International Criminal Court (ICC). The report, published on August 29, is entitled "Who will stand for us? Victims [...]
17 July 2017 by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.Net
Week in Review: justice versus peace  As the world celebrates International Justice Day this July 17, the peace versus justice debate continues in Uganda, the Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Mali and many other countries. On the one hand is the [...]
10 July 2017 by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo editorial advisor and associate professor at Neuchâtel University
Uganda’s amnesty law and the peace/justice dilemma A new amnesty law for Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) fighters has been before the Ugandan parliament has since 2015. It would put an end to the existing ambiguity between the general amnesty law of 2000, which is currently in force, [...]
25 April 2017 by AFP
Uganda's brutal Lord's Resistance Army: timeline Key dates in the history of Uganda's brutal Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), which the United States and Uganda have decided to stop hunting down, saying the rebels have been neutralised. One of Africa's longest-surviving rebel group [...]
25 April 2017 by AFP
Joseph Kony: uncatchable, brutal rebel chief Brutal rebel commander Joseph Kony has sowed terror across four African nations for three decades, even evading capture by US and Ugandan soldiers who have now given up the chase. The former Catholic altar boy became one of Africa [...]
24 April 2017 by Lino Owor Ogora
Offering New Insights on Memory and Memorialization for Uganda From November 25, to December 9, 2016, I was privileged to join a select group of 25 participants who attended a two-week seminar on truth, justice and remembrance in Berlin, Germany. I was the only Ugandan in the group, and one o [...]
15 March 2017 by Human Rights Watch
HRW: Ensure Independent Investigation into Kasese Killings in Uganda (Nairobi, March 15, 2017) – Killings by Ugandan military and police during joint operations in Kasese, western Uganda on November 26-27, 2016, warrant an independent, impartial fact-finding mission with international expertise, Hu [...]
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