[feb] ICC convicts Ugandan rebel commander for war crimes

Question 1

context?

Answer 1

convicted a Ugandan child soldier-turned-Lord’s Resistance Army commander of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Question 2

Details

Answer 2

name : Dominic Ongwen,nicknamed “White Ant”
terror in early 2000s
first conviction by the ICC for the crime of forced pregnancy.

Question 3

What is Lord’s Resistance Army?

Answer 3

• founded three decades ago by Kony
• originated in Northern Uganda as a movement to fight for the rights of the Acholi people.
• bloody campaign in four African nations to set up a state based on the Bible’s Ten Commandments.(Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Central African Republic.)