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War crimes sentence for Ugandan rebel chief

May 7, 2021

A Ugandan former child soldier who became a rebel commander has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for war crimes. Dominic Ongwen was convicted by the International Criminal Court on charges including murder, rape, forced pregnancy and using child soldiers, when he was leader of the Lord's Resistance Army.

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