Uganda, as the concerned state party, is expected to go out and find Dominic Ongwen’s victims.
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The Ugandan militant remains on the run despite a US$5 million bounty on his head for war crimes committed between 1987 and 2006.
Dominic Ongwen was the first person to use the defence of duress at the International Criminal Court.
Ongwen’s case ends the blanket amnesty that African courts have always granted ex-child abductees over war crimes
The International court did not allow Dominic Ongwen’s background to colour the legal determination of his criminal liability.
Former fighters described Ongwen as a model fighter and an effective commander – but testimony in his trial detailed the former child soldier’s alleged personal role in the rape of underage women.
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