A four member panel of Judges at the International Crimes Division (ICD) of the High Court of Uganda will on Friday 25th October 2024 issue a sentence in the case of former Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebel commander Thomas Kwoyelo.
Kwoyelo was convicted on August 13th of committing 44 crimes comprising war crimes and crimes against humanity in a ruling delivered in Gulu City, more than 15 years after his capture by the Ugandan army.
The crimes include; murder, pillaging, outrages to personal dignity, enslavement, rape, cruel treatment, and torture committed between March 1993 and January 2005 in Kilak County in present-day Amuru district. Kwoyelo has denied willful participation in the crimes.
Juliet Harty Hatanga, the ICD Deputy Registrar says that with just two days left, the court will go ahead to pronounce the sentencing of Kwoyelo as scheduled if it doesn’t receive any objections.
Hatanga says the panel of judges is already deliberating on the sentencing which will be delivered at the Gulu High Court in respect of all the 44 counts of crimes for which Kwoyelo was convicted.
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By Our Reporter
23 Oct 2024
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