A Lords Resistance Army rebel commander who surrendered to US troops last week will be taken to The Hague for trial, Ugandas military has said. Dominic Ongwen is now in US custody in Obo, a town in eastern Central African Republic, the country where he surrendered on January 6, said Ugandas army spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Paddy Ankunda. It has been finally decided that Dominic Ongwen will be tried at The Hague. Victims will get justice as much as Ongwen, Ankunda told the Reuters news agency. Arrangements for his transfer are being made and it will be CAR that will transfer him, he said. The capture of Ongwen, 34, marks a major success in the Africa-US military campaign to crush the Lords Resistance Army led by Joseph Kony, which according to the United Nations has killed more than a 100,000 people and kidnapped mor than 60,000 children. Read More: aljazeera/news/africa/2015/01/uganda-lra-commander-be-tried-icc-201511317531664547.html
Posted on: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 08:36:00 +0000