ICC hears war crimes case against Ugandan rebel leader

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has opened the case of war crimes against Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony at all at all confirmation of the accusation session without the attendance of the accused.

The procedures specify a historical moment for the court and can serve as a test of future trials of prominent suspects who seem to be currently far from hand.

Despite the arrest warrant issued 20 years ago, Kony, founder and leader of the Resistance Army (LRA), managed to evade arrest.

He faces 39 charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity, including killing, sexual slavery, kidnapping, and forcing thousands of children to fight as soldiers in the army of the Lord to resist.

Kony said he wanted to install a government based on the ten biblical commandments, and he was fighting for the rights of the Acholi people in northern Uganda.

But his rebellious group was notorious because of the penetration of the limbs of their victims or parts of their faces.

Kony fame increased in 2012 due to a social media campaign to highlight the alleged atrocities of the Lord’s Army of Resistance.

Despite those efforts, and the years of betting, they are still fleeing.

There was silence in the courtroom where the charges of the charges against it were read.

It also covers gender -based crimes associated with treating thousands of women and girls, including their enslavement, rape, forced marriage and pregnancy.

It was claimed that the atrocities were committed in northern Uganda between 2003 and 2004.

“Unfortunately, the claws of international justice, although long, were not enough to ensure the arrest of two active fleeing,” Mami Mandia Niang, Deputy Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, said at the opening of the case.

She added: “Many of the victims who have the power to survive in the horrors of the civil war did not survive this long waiting. Others have lost patience, but there are some who waited for this moment.”

According to propaganda, children were kidnapped regularly on their way to school, from the fields, who are deprived of their basic rights, and were forced to kill for the Kony Rebel group.

For the first time, the International Criminal Court exercises its authority under the Rome Law, the establishment treaty, to move forward without a suspect in the reservation.

Judges will hear the arguments of prosecution and defense and representatives of the victims. Kony will be represented in the absence of a specific lawyer by the court, before the judges decide whether the charges will be confirmed.

However, the same trial cannot begin unless Kony is arrested, and the court attendance in The Hague.

Legal experts say the session can put a precedent for how ICC deals with other fugitives who are unlikely to be arrested.

For survivors of the violence of the Lord’s Army for Resistance, the session is closely monitored, albeit from remoteness, on a large screen created by the International Criminal Court teams in northern Uganda.

Rights defenders say they are checking the suffering of thousands of people who endured the era of the terrorist rebel group.

One of the survivors said: “This is related to confession,” said one of the survivors. “Even if you are not in reservation, the world hears what happened to our societies.”

In the case of the Lord’s Army for Resistance, the Deputy Prosecutor referred to the severed scars through the societies that “the victim has become perpetrator”, but Kony, “remained the main crime until the end.”

The army of an army was forced into Uganda from Uganda in 2005, and the rebels went to what was then Sudan (now southern Sudan) and eventually set up a camp in the border region with the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

They later moved to the Central African Republic, where they are understood that they participated in overfishing and illegal mining.

There were attempts by the Ugandan government to conclude a peace agreement with Kony, but the talks collapsed in 2008 because the leader of the Lord’s Skills Army wanted assurances that he and his allies would not be tried.

The International Criminal Court’s decision includes moving forward without attending its determination to follow up accountability, even when it is difficult to achieve arrests.

This step also highlights the fact that with a few other trials progressing, this represents an opportunity to prove that the besieged court is still able to work.

The international criminal court at the present time is on vacation while the allegations of sexual misconduct are being investigated, and the United States has imposed a series of idle sanctions in response to arrest orders in the International Criminal Court of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Minister of Defense.