By Rawlings Magede With a former LRA Commander Over the past weeks, I had a series of engagements with representatives from the International Criminal Court (ICC) and former commanders and returnees of Uganda’s notorious rebel group, Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA).The rebel group remains active today and its led by Joseph Kony.The engagements touched on a number of issues ranging from the conviction of former LRA commander, Dominic Ongwen by the ICC,the issue of reparations for victims of Ongwen and then the integration process of former LRA returnees into communities in Northern Uganda. The ICC and LRA On 16 December 2003, the Ugandan government referred the war crimes by the LRA to the prosecutor of the ICC.Since 1986, the LRA led by its leader, Joseph Kony had wrecked havoc on the Acholi people of Northern Uganda. The move by the Uganda government was the first time that a state party had invoked Articles 13(a) and 14 of the Rome Statute in order to vest the Court with
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