20 years later, will Joseph Kony’s victims get justice?
Posted: 25 September, 2024 Filed under: Michael Aboneka | Tags: 70 girls, abduction, Amnesty Amendment Act, crimes against humanity, hunt for Kony, internally displaced persons camps, Joseph Kony, Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), LRA, Lwala Girls School, murder, rape, Rome Statute, Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, sexual enslavement, Uganda, Ugandan leader, war crimes, witness protection law Leave a comment
Author: Michael Aboneka
LLM Candidate, Centre for Human Rights
Joseph Kony is a Ugandan leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). The LRA started its operations from Northern Uganda extending to some parts of Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Central African Republic. He claims to be fighting to liberate the Acholi and Ugandans from oppression and captivity.
He has both individual and command responsibility under articles 25 and 28 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (Rome Statute). Kony founded the LRA as its supreme leader and commander with effective control over it. He ordered his commanders to attack Lwala Girls School and abducted 70 girls in 2003, and attacked Pajule, Abok, Lukodi internally displaced persons camps among others. He was indicted with 21 counts of war crimes including murder, inducing rapes among others and 12 counts of crimes against humanity including acts of inflicting serious bodily injury and suffering, rape, sexual enslavement, abduction and enlisting over 30,000 children.
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