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Dominic Ongwen

Residents of an Ugandan village listen to the International Criminal Court's (ICC) sentence of Dominic Ongwen, on the radio.
Reparations: can the ICC's millions benefit victims in Uganda?
29 March 2024 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
On February 28, judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced their decision on reparations to victims in the case of Dominic Ongwen, a former Ugandan rebel commander. A total of more than 52 million euros, [...]
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has ordered €52 million in reparations for the victims of Dominic Ongwen in Uganda. Photo: Judge Bertram Schmitt. The wild reparations order of the ICC
29 February 2024 by Lucy Gaynor (for Justice Info)
On February 28, judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced their decision on reparations to victims in the case of Dominic Ongwen, a former Ugandan rebel commander convicted three years ago. They came up with a mom [...]
Dominic Ongwen at the International Criminal Court (ICC) ICC's second highest sentence given to Dominic Ongwen
6 May 2021 by AFP
The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday sentenced Dominic Ongwen, a Ugandan child soldier who became a commander of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), to 25 years' jail for war crimes and crimes against humanity. While a [...]
Dominic Ongwen at the ICC ICC: How to interpret Ongwen's conviction?
5 February 2021 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Fully responsible and guilty. Yesterday, on February 4th, seventeen years after the Ugandan authorities asked the International Criminal Court to investigate the northern Ugandan conflict, former Lord's Resistance Army commander D [...]
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A former child soldier of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in Uganda
4 February 2021 by Ephrem Rugiririza
ICC trial of Dominic Ongwen: Are the spirits there? The International Criminal Court is to hand down its judgment today February 4 in the case of Ugandan rebel Dominic Ongwen, a former member of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). Belief in spirits has been central to the arguments o [...]
Dominic Ongwen - ICC judgment
4 February 2021 by AFP
ICC finds Ongwen fully responsible of his crimes as a LRA commander The Ugandan child soldier-turned-Lord’s Resistance Army commander is fully responsible. “The chamber did not find evidence for the claim by the defence that he suffered from any mental disease or that he committed the crimes under [...]
16 March 2020 by Thijs Bouwknegt and Barbora Holá
Dominic Ongwen: the ICC’s Poster and Problem Child Last week, the International Criminal Court (ICC) heard the closing arguments in the trial of Ugandan Dominic Ongwen, five years after his first appearance. In no other ICC trial have case narratives been so opposite, morally comp [...]
22 October 2019 by Grace Matsiko and Ephrem Rugiririza
ICC/Uganda: “Ongwen was and still is a victim,” says lawyer For the past year, Ugandan Dominic Ongwen has been presenting his defence before the International Criminal Court (ICC). To date, more than 50 witnesses have testified in the defence of the former Lord's Resistance Army brigade co [...]
20 September 2018 by Janet H. Anderson
Dominic Ongwen, the imperfect poster child of the ICC On September 18, the defence of Dominic Ongwen has begun to present its case before the International Criminal Court. Of the five leaders of Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance Army indicted by the ICC, Ongwen is the only one in the dock. [...]