Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) members charged with crimes under international law must be surrendered to the International Criminal Court (ICC) immediately, Amnesty International said today, reacting to the news that a deal has been reached between the LRA and the Ugandan government whereby LRA leaders accused of crimes against humanity and war crimes would be tried by a national court.
The Ugandan government has struck a deal with the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) about where their leaders will be tried.
The justice system in Uganda is failing women and girls who have faced sexual violence.
Embargo Date: 30 November 2007 00:01 GMT: Amnesty International today accused the criminal justice system in northern Uganda of ignoring, denying and tacitly condoning violence against women and girls, while it protects suspected perpetrators.
Three men who escaped the death penalty joined forces in New York to campaign for a global abolition of this irreversible punishment.
Stories of the death penalty around the world - an animated slideshow narrated by Colin Firth
"Okello John's" brutal initiation into the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA)
at the age of fourteen served its purpose; it was two years before he
tried to escape, bound to his new "family" through fear and complicity.
