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FILE - In this Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2016 file photo, Dominic Ongwen, a senior commander in the Lord's Resistance Army, whose fugitive leader Kony is one of the world's most-wanted war crimes suspects, is flanked by two security guards as he sits in the court room of the International Court in The Hague, Netherlands. Ongwen was convicted in February, 2021 of a total of 61 war crimes and crimes against humanity including murder, rape, forced marriage, forced pregnancy and using child soldiers. His lawyers have said they will appeal the conviction. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, Pool, File)

Int’l Court sentences Ugandan to 25 years for war crimes

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2016, file photo, Dominic Ongwen, a senior commander in the brutal Ugandan rebel group Lord's Resistance Army, whose fugitive leader Kony is one of the world's most-wanted war crimes suspects, enters the court room of the International Court in The Hague, Netherlands. Judges at the International Criminal Court are passing judgement Thursday Feb. 4, 2021, on Ongwen, who is charged with 70 crimes including murder, sexual slavery and using child soldiers. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

ICC convicts Ugandan rebel commander of war crimes

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2016 file photo, Dominic Ongwen, a senior commander in the Lord's Resistance Army, whose fugitive leader Kony is one of the world's most-wanted war crimes suspects, sits in the court room of the International Court in The Hague, Netherlands. In his opening statement on Tuesday Sept. 18, 2018, a lawyer defending Ongwen accused of crimes including murder, sexual slavery and using child soldiers is casting him as a victim of the rebel group's brutal leader, Joseph Kony. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, Pool, File)

Defense lawyer casts Ugandan war crimes defendant as victim

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

Dominic Ongwen, a senior commander in the Lord's Resistance Army, whose fugitive leader Kony is one of the world's most-wanted war crimes suspects, is flanked by two security guards as he sits in the court room of the International Court in The Hague, Netherlands, Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2016. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, Pool)

Ugandan rebel charged with 70 counts, including murder, rape

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sunday, April 29, 2012 file photo, U.S. Army special forces Master Sergeant Eric, centre, who would only give his first name in accordance with special forces security guidelines, speaks with troops from the Central African Republic and Uganda, in Obo, Central African Republic, where U.S. special forces have paired up with local troops and Ugandan soldiers to seek out Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). Uganda's government said Monday, Jan. 12, 2015, that it wants to try Lord's Resistance Army commander Dominic Ongwen, who recently surrendered to U.S. Forces and is in U.S. custody in Central African Republic, for war crimes and crimes against humanity, instead of at the International Criminal Court. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

Uganda says it wants to try rebel leader who surrendered

By RISDEL KASASIRA - Associated Press

This photo taken Friday, April 27, 2012, shows an aerial view over northern Uganda. Some locals in Gulu in northern Uganda have other concerns that complicate the military mission of forces now hunting for Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) leader Joseph Kony, such as the fear of reprisal attacks if they are thought to be helping the authorities find him, or concerns that troops hunting him will not be able to distinguish between the regular LRA fighters and their abducted children. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Fugitive African warlord Kony stays a step ahead of pursuers

By Rodney Muhumuza - Associated Press