The bloody fate of Ongwen, the child soldier who became a condemned executioner

Justice convicted Dominic Ongwen, 45, on Thursday when she allegedly protected the same Dominic Ongwen thirty years earlier.

For the International Criminal Court (ICC), the conviction of this Ugandan, a former senior official of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) does not however suffer from contradiction.

"His guilt has been established beyond a reasonable doubt

," said the president of the court, Bertram Schmitt, in delivering the verdict.

Looking tired and prematurely aged from five years of trial and a life that feels like a bad horror movie, the man didn't seem surprised, although he always denied everything.

"In the name of God."

The testimonies and charges against him left no alternative.

Dominic Ongwen was prosecuted for war crimes and crimes against humanity, in total nearly 70 reasons which sweep away almost everything that the penal code punishes: murders, rapes, kidnappings, torture, looting, enslavement and even pregnancies or marriages. forced.

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