Joseph Kony case in The Hague begins with accounts of alleged atrocities | Joseph Kony
An international criminal court stood against war crimes against Uganda illegal rebel leader Joseph Kony and accusations of crimes against humanity.
He will confirm the charges of the ICC’s first absentia hearing, but cannot proceed to a hearing in Kony’s absence. The war network faces 39 points, including murder, rape, sexual slavery, slavery and torture, allegedly committed in Northern Uganda between July 2002 and December 2005.
Since 1986, Lra said he wanted to establish a state based on the 10th of the Bible by trying to overthrow Uganda’s government. Until 2006, the UN estimated that 2 million people were displaced. Lra was later pushed to the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan and then to the Central African Republic.
US Special Forces are among those who cannot find and find Kony. It is not known whether the war network is still alive.
A lawyer who represented Lra’s victims, Sarah Pellet, said, ın The victims had no other option when they were forced to watch murder. They had no other options when they were made to kill. When their bodies turned into war vehicles, they did not have any other options. ”
Pellet referred to a woman who had to leave her child: “Aberatlar hit me, forced me to run for my life. I still don’t know where my child is.”
The estimated 60,000 children were kidnapped by LRA, and many of them were subjected to sexual violence. More than 100,000 people were killed.
Mame Mandiye Niang, Deputy Prosecutor who filed the prosecutor’s office, said: “The social and cultural texture of Uganda was torn apart and they are struggling to heal.”
The Kony lawyer appointed by the court argued that the clients of the transactions violated their right to fair trial and should not be done at all. “The empty chair affected the preparation of the defense,” lawyer Peter Haynes said.
Everlyn Ayo, 39-year-old, told Agency France-Presse how Lra attacked her school at the age of five: “The rebels raided school, killed our teachers in big drums and cooked them and we were forced to eat their remnants for many years.
Richard Ochola, one of the 200 people who watched the hearing in Gulu Secondary School in Northern Uganda, criticized the process. 34 -year -old farmer, “Kony’s face without seeing the screen is not satisfactory at all. Our dream, Kony’s trial, rejecting or confirming people killed people,” he said.
“What we are watching right now is no different than watching a film produced in a foreign country, because there is no one in the courtroom we know or we can relate to our pain.”
Legal experts, ICC prosecutors accused by the ICC and Russian president Vladimir Putin and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, including other high -profile suspects, said he could use it as a precedent.
“[Prosecutors] If they continue to survive justice every year, have their eyes on the possibility of using this procedure against Putin or Netanyahu. ”
