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Ex-LRA commander convicted of crimes against humanity in landmark Ugandan trial

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Court to sentence Thomas Kwoyelo for 44 offences committed during militia’s 20-year rebellion and reign of terror

A former commander in the feared Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) has been convicted of crimes against humanity after the first such war crimes trial in Uganda.

Thomas Kwoyelo, who faced 78 counts related to crimes committed during the LRA’s bloody two-decade rebellion, had been waiting for years behind bars for a verdict in the landmark case.

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War crimes court refers Djibouti and Uganda to UN

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London, July 18, GNA - The governments of Djibouti and Uganda have been referred by the International Criminal Court to the UN and the ICC's Assembly of States Parties for their failure to arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir - who is facing war crimes charges at the court - when he visited these countries. The Sudanese leader, for whom the ICC has issued two arrest warrants, is facing five counts of crimes against humanity, two counts of war crimes and three counts of genocide allegedly committed in the Darfur Region in western Sudan.