A Ugandan court on Tuesday found a former commander in the feared Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) guilty of multiple counts of crimes against humanity after the first such war crimes trial in the East African country.
Thomas Kwoyelo, who was charged for crimes committed during a bloody two-decade LRA rebellion in northern Uganda, had been waiting for years behind bars for a verdict in the landmark case.
“He is found guilty of the 44 offenses and hereby convicted,” lead judge Michael Elubu said at the International Crimes Division of the high court in the northern city of Gulu.
They included murder, rape, torture, pillaging, abduction, and destruction of settlements for internally displaced people, the judge said.
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