A leader of the terrorist group Ugandan Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), Dominic Ongwen, Wednesday arrived in the detention center of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. The court had been looking for him since July 2005 for crimes against humanity and war crimes mainly committed in northern Uganda
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Ongwen is medical examination and at the end of the week or early next week for the first time brought, said a spokesman for the ICC Wednesday. Bert Koenders, Minister of Foreign Affairs called Wednesday “the arrival of the high commander of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) is an important step in the fight against impunity.” He considers it important that the other three wanted leaders of the LRA be tried.
Ongwen popped January 6 in the Central African Republic. He surrendered and was handed over to US forces. Who sent him to Uganda that he was extradited to the ICC.
Death and destruction
The LRA sows many years of death and destruction in northern Uganda, southern Sudan, the northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Central African Republic. Joseph Kony, who founded the LRA in 1987, has also been indicted by the ICC, but still on the run.
The brutal struggle of the resistance army has tens of thousands of people dead. Nearly two million people hit the violence on the run. According to UN estimates, in 2008, the LRA has abducted approximately 25,000 children to use as sex slaves, child soldiers and forced labor. Ongwen was one of them. He quickly climbed the ranks of the LRA
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