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Thomas Kwoyelo

Thomas Kwoyelo finally convicted after 15 years in prison. The Judgment was pronounced on August 13, 2024 in Uganda.
Kwoyelo’s conviction, at long last
27 August 2024 by Grace Matsiko (our correspondent in Uganda)
More than 15 years after his arrest, Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance Army former rebel commander Thomas Kwoyelo was found guilty by a Ugandan court of 44 counts of atrocity crimes on August 13. More time is required for his sentencing.
Thomas Kwoyelo at his trial in Uganda Kwoyelo: “At no time did I kill any one”
2 May 2024 by Grace Matsiko (our correspondent in Kampala)
Dressed in a grey suit, red-spotted tie and matching shoes, former Ugandan Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) commander Thomas Kwoyelo was able to speak in his own defence for the first time. For a week, ending April 30, a Ugandan court [...]
Report from Thomas Kwoyelo's birthplace in Uganda, with his family. Photo: Kwoyelo's relatives in front of the house where he lived as a child. “Kwoyelo was born and grew up here”
6 February 2024 by Grace Matsiko (our special envoy in Acut Cama Ceri, Uganda)
“I don’t know what interest government has in my son, not to release him,” Thomas Kwoyelo’s mother tells Justice Info in his home village of Acut Cama Ceri, nestled in tall, overgrown savanna in northern Uganda. The mother of the [...]
Thomas Kwoyelo's trial in Uganda - He appears on video on television during a hearing he is unable to attend. Uganda: apologies but still no trial for ex-LRA Kwoyelo
5 February 2024 by Grace Matsiko (our special envoy in Gulu, Uganda)
Sitting some 300 km away in a high security prison in Kampala, former Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) colonel Thomas Kwoyelo appeared via video link on January 19 before Uganda’s International Crimes Division. It had organized anothe [...]
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Thomas Kwoyelo in Ouganda
4 April 2022 by Grace Matsiko
Uganda: Kwoyelo, 13 years in custody without trial  Uganda holds the lamentable world record for the longest pre-trial detention in an international crimes trial. Thomas Kwoyelo, a former colonel in the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army, has been in jail for thirteen years. His trial fo [...]
9 March 2020 by Grace Matsiko
12 years on, Uganda’s International Crimes Division has little to show While the International Criminal Court hears this week the closing arguments in the trial of former Ugandan LRA rebel Dominic Ongwen, the trial of LRA Thomas Kwoyelo is announced to resume today in Uganda, following years of frust [...]
20 November 2018 by Grace Matsiko
Kwoyelo Trial: Frustration on all sides The trial of Thomas Kwoyelo, a former commander of Uganda’s rebel group Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) has been adjourned to February 2019, only two days after it started. This has caused unease among the victims of the two-decade a [...]
13 November 2018 by Grace Matsiko
LRA’s victims: “We ask those handling this case not to delay it again” The trial of the former operations commander of Uganda’s notorious rebel group, the Lord’s Resistance Army Thomas Kwoyelo begun on November 12 in the country’s Northern town of Gulu, once the epicenter of the group’s armed activit [...]
10 November 2018 by Ephrem Rugiririza
Uganda faces first test with Kwoyelo LRA trial  In Uganda, the trial of former LRA rebel commander Thomas Kwoyelo is set to start on Monday November 12 in the northern town of Gulu. Kwoyelo, who has been in detention since 2009, is the first person to be brought before a specia [...]