LRA commander Dominic Ongwen to go on trial at ICC
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By BBC News From the section Africa The first Lords Resistance Army commander to appear before the International Criminal Court is to go on trial at The Hague. Dominic Ongwen is also the first child soldier to be tried by the ICC. He faces 70 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Uganda, more charges than any other suspect. But the BBC’s Anna Holligan says his past may present ethical and legal dilemmas, and his lawyers may use his traumatised youth to plea for leniency. Dominic Ongwen was a boy when he was abducted and conscripted by the...