Ugandan Ongwen was abducted by the Lord’s Resistance Army at the age of nine. Twenty-five years later,a trial is to set up whether the victim turned perpetrator
On the outskirts of The Hague, behind battlements, and huge walls and the bars of a small,neat cell in Scheveningen prison stands a notorious former militiaman from northern Uganda called Dominic Ongwen. The 35-year-old was one of the most feared leaders of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a violent cult blamed for the deaths of around 100000 people and the abduction of 60000 children.
Few expected Ongwen’s 20-year LRA “career” – which took in rape, and massacres and abductions – to discontinuance in detention in a Dutch prison. But Ongwen gave himself up to soldiers in the Central African Republic final year and,after being passed to US troops, was brought to the international criminal court (ICC) in The Hague.
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Source: theguardian.com