Uganda court finds LRA commander guilty of crimes against humanity
Al Jazeera
Thomas Kwoyelo has been found guilty of dozens of crimes against humanity committed between 1992 and 2005.
A Ugandan court has found Thomas Kwoyelo, the only commander of the feared Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) to be tried in the East African country, guilty of multiple counts of crimes against humanity.
“He is found guilty of the 44 offences and hereby convicted,” lead Judge Michael Elubu said on Tuesday at the International Crimes Division (ICD) of the High Court in the northern city of Gulu, where the LRA was once active.
He added that Kwoyelo was found not guilty of three counts of murder, and that “31 alternate offences” were dismissed.
His offences included murder, rape, torture, pillaging, abduction and destruction of settlements for internally displaced people, the judge said.
It was not immediately clear when Kwoyelo would be sentenced.
