LRA commander Dominic Ongwen faces war crimes sentence

ICC judges to sentence ex-child soldier-turned-Lord’s Resistance Army commander for litany of war crimes in Uganda.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) is due to sentence Dominic Ongwen, a former child soldier who became one of the top commanders of the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Uganda. The 45-year-old in February was found guilty of 61 charges including murders, rapes and sexual enslavement during a reign of terror in the early 2000s by the LRA, led by the fugitive Joseph Kony. Prosecutors have asked for a 20-year prison term, saying Ongwen’s own history as a schoolboy abducted by the LRA justifies a lower sentence than the maximum 30 years to life allowed by the ICC.