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Kwoyelo found guilty of war crimes

The International Crimes Division of the High Court has found former Lord’s Resistance Army commander Thomas Kwoyelo, alias Latoni, guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity. In a landmark verdict delivered on Tuesday evening, the Director of Public Prosecutions secured 44 convictions against Kwoyelo for war crimes under the Geneva Conventions Act of 1964, crimes against humanity under Customary International Law, and other grave offenses committed during the LRA insurgency. Kwoyelo was initially indicted on 93 charges related to violations of international humanitarian and customary international law between 1987 and 2005. These charges included pillaging, cruel treatment, murder, outrages upon personal dignity, violence to life, imprisonment, rape, enslavement, torture, kidnap with intent to murder, aggravated robbery, and attempted murder. […]

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