The Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) was once a force to be reckoned with in northern Uganda.
“Close friends of mine were abducted [at the time],” says reporter Benson Ongom in the northern city of Gulu. “They were taken to the bush and we never saw them [again].”
Today, the LRA’s forces are depleted and their leader, Joseph Kony, is in hiding.
On Thursday, one of Kony’s top commanders, Dominic Ongwen, will be sentenced by the International Criminal Court at The Hague.
In February, he was convicted on 61 counts of crimes against humanity and war crimes.
“Dominic Ongwen was a merciless commander. If he says ‘murder’, he means it. It means you have to be killed,” says Mr Ongom, who’s reported extensively on the LRA’s rebellion.
And yet, for some people back in Uganda, finding some sense of closure is still proving hard.
But why? And what happens now to whatever’s left of the LRA?
Source: BBC
