Abducted by Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) at the age of ten on his way to school, thereafter proselytised into the army, became a Commander and then, years later, surrendered to the ICC, Dominic Ongwen presents a peculiar case for the International Criminal Court (ICC). Yesterday, the International Criminal Court, at its pre-trial chamber, confirmed that 70 charges have been brought against Dominic Ongwen, meaning the case will move to trial. The charges brought against him include war crimes of murder, rape, sexual slavery, torture, pillaging and the forceful enlistment of children under the age of 15 into the LRA to participate in violence.
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