Jeune Afrique on one of the LRA leaders and ex-child soldier, Dominic Ongwen

Uganda: The ICC to Judge Dominic Ongwen, One of the LRA’s Commanders
The Ugandan Army announced on Tuesday that Dominic Ongwen, one of the main leaders of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), who surrendered to US Special Forces in the Central African Republic on 6 January, shall be handed to the International Criminal Court for trial.
Read the article on Jeuneafrique.com: ICC | Uganda: The International Criminal Court will try Dominic Ongwen, one of the leaders of the LRA | Jeuneafrique.com – The number one site for information and news on Africa
Follow us: @jeune_afrique on Twitter | jeuneafrique1 on FacebookDominic Ongwen "sera acheminé à La Haye" (aux Pays-Bas, où se trouve siège de la CPI) directement depuis la Centrafrique, selon Paddy Ankunda, porte-parole de l'armée ougandaise.
The ex-rebel leader had early given up armed resistance and surrendered himself to Central African ex-Seleka rebels who then handed him to the American soldiers. Many LRA commanders, including its historic leader, Joseph Kony, are subject to an arrest warrant issued by the ICC. According to the UN, the rebellion has caused more than 100,000 deaths in Central Africa and kidnapped more than 60,000 children since it started.
The LRA: A burned out rebellion?
The handing over of Dominic Ongwen is a severe blow to the LRA, a rebellion created in Northern Uganda in 1987. The movement, which has been fought by the Ugandan Army since 2006, split up into small groups, scattered in the equatorial rainforest in countries in this region, including the Central African Republic.  
Ongwen, a former child soldier aged around 35, is accused of have ordered bloody campaigns by the militia in the north of Uganda in the early 2000s. Thousands were either killed or kidnapped to be made child soldiers and sex slaves during these campaigns.  He is equally accused of ordering attacks against civilians in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
Pardon
A radio station in the Central African Republic, last January 12, broadcasted a recording in which Dominic Ongwen called on his former comrades in arms to surrender and begged for Yoweri Museveni’s pardon. “I have realised that I was wasting my time in the bush. I am now free, despite the file opened by the International Criminal Court (ICC) against me” he declared.

According to the Ugandan Army, Joseph Kony is the only LRA leader still at large.

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