UGANDA – ICC
January 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE INTERNATIONAL Criminal Court (ICC) is a step closer to launching its first case, with Uganda President Yoweri Museveni referring the terror wrought by his county's rebel group the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) to ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo. He has promised to decide on launching a formal investigation in the coming months. Museveni's move is the first time a court state party has referred a case. As such, it is more likely that Moreno-Ocampo will prosecute the resistance army than the suspects in the other case in which he has interest, ...
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