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Last week, the International Criminal Court (ICC) held a new type of hearing against Joseph Kony, the leader of the Ugandan rebel movement the Lord Resistance Army. But what did airing the evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity in northern Uganda more than 20 years ago, without the defendant in the dock, can achieve?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

In his closing remarks at the end of a the two day hearing in The Hague<\/a>, after all the description of horrific crimes and how Joseph Kony should be held responsible, defence counsel Peter Haynes told the court that when the prosecution first proposed an in absentia confirmation hearing in this case, it had justified the proposal in part as a way to \u201cair the evidence, to give the victims a chance to speak. And to increase public awareness\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He submitted that the publicity around the hearings meant that those objectives had been met, and that the judges \u201cshould issue a conditional stay of proceedings and discharge my mandate as counsel\u201d. He had outlined during the previous day the uncertainty as to what would happen if the suspect were arrested from this point on. Would these proceedings be held again, with the same charges? Would there be a new legal team? Would Uganda \u2013 if they arrested Kony \u2013 hand him over? As Jackline Owacgiu Atingo, researcher at Ghent University Belgium<\/a>, who watched the proceedings in Gulu says, \u201cit\u2019s a very rare case. A hearing in the absence of somebody is something that people here have never experienced. People do not understand exactly what\u2019s happening. Is it just going to be in vain?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNo description of the accused\u201d  <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Of course, there is never any guarantee that a case will proceed. The same team that defended Kony have managed previously successfully to overturn the conviction of Congolese Jean-Pierre Bemba<\/a>. At any stage, judges can decide not to continue. Even the prosecutor can acknowledge that he doesn\u2019t have the evidence \u2013 as was the case in the Kenyan case before the ICC. But all through these hearings against Kony, the questions were ever present; who is this for, what will it achieve and what does it mean?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere was no description of the accused,\u201d noted Adina-Loredana Nistor, lecturer at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam<\/a>, who watched from the public gallery. She has researched in northern Uganda and written on the only Uganda trial at the court, against Kony\u2019s lieutenant, Dominic Ongwen<\/a>, which concluded this year. \u201cIf I think of the Ongwen trial, you had the prosecution opening and saying: Dominic Ongwen was both good and bad and good people are capable of evil things\u201d. At Ongwen\u2019s trial, \u201cKony was described as an omnipotent person,\u201d and the LRA was seen \u201cso steeped in mysticism,\u201d says Nistor, \u201cit created a certain atmosphere\u201d. In the Kony hearings \u201cspirituality was mentioned only once, very briefly\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kony\u2019s role though, was referenced again and again over the two days. The prosecution outlined the command structure of the LRA. He was known as chief commander. In a multi-coloured chart about ten other men were shown to have been promoted or demoted as commanders during the specific period of the charges \u2013 2002-2005 \u2013 while Kony remained on top. \u201cA very interesting play with time, with past, present and future, because the defendant has not been apprehended. Maybe he will be\u201d, says Nistor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Focus on women and children<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

There are 39 charges against<\/a> Kony, detailed by a prosecution team led by deputy prosecutor Mame Mandiaye Niang.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe LRA forcibly abducted thousands of people and enslaved them during the period covered by the charges. The abducted women were subjected to multiple forms of enslavement. They were forbidden to leave the LRA. Partners were imposed on them. They were subjected rape and other forms of sexual violence. They were subject to reproductive control, including forced pregnancies. Which forced them to give birth in the bush without prenatal or postnatal care. And they were subjected to exploitation, aggravated by labour in conditions of domestic servitude. Within the LRA, these women were referred to as wives, a euphemism for forced conjugal partners. Domestic slaves. Children were not spared either. Kony abused their innocence, as well as their inexperience, to swell the ranks of his army. He set up a veritable army of child soldiers,\u201d he told the court.<\/p>\n\n\n\t

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The focus on what happened to women and to children provided the backbone of the charges. Prosecuting counsel Sanyu Annabelle Ndagire outlines that \u201cthe LRA unlawfully confined these women and girls during their pregnancies with the intent to carry out grave violations of international law, including continued enslavement. And the inhumane act of forced marriage. This included at least one of the victims\u2019 children fathered by Kony, who was born in Uganda during the charge period. While other children of Kony were conceived and born outside of the charge period and outside of Uganda, these witnesses confirmed the existence of a pattern of forced pregnancy with which Mr. Kony is charged\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Evidence from Ugandan armed forces<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Some of the prosecution evidence, Ndagire says, came from intercepted radio communications, transcribed by the Ugandan armed forces. \u201cThe LRA radio communication of 18 December 2002 reveals that Kony ordered the beating of a woman with 50 strokes for refusing to hand over a young child as a babysitter or TingTing [young girl],\u201d Ndagire told the court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The prosecution clearly made strategic choices, says Nistor. \u201cThese are also the crimes that you can prove, and you know for sure that you have sufficient evidence to back up your claims\u201d. She underlines that Kony faces fewer charges than Ongwen \u2013 \u201che started with 70 and was convicted of 63, so Kony starts with a bit over half. I wonder how that makes sense\u201d. \u201cWhat seems left unaddressed is sexual violence against boys. In the Ongwen trial during his unsworn statement, he said that he was sexually abused by female commanders. I would have expected that the prosecution would build on that from the Ongwen trial\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jackline Atingo is also concerned. She has long noted that the ICC can only deal with crimes committed after its inception in 2002. \u201cHow about those who were abducted and those who had issues in 1992 and 1993, their children were killed, houses were burned. What is going to happen? Some crimes seem more important than others. And yet all of them are crimes that have hurt the population and have hurt people\u201d. \u201cVictims\u2019 expectation was that Kony is going to be accountable for all the victims\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe ICC is seen as very unfair. Has justice been done to everybody? Has justice been done?\u201d In particular, she says \u201cwe have children that were born in the bush or when their mothers were held captive with the LRA. And then they came back with these children and, there\u2019s no land for them to settle in. They have been rejected by, you know, the community. How can the hearing benefit them? How are they going to benefit from this?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat is it that ICC wants?\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Nistor reflects that \u201cwithin the same community, you will find people who are very satisfied, who were expecting for this moment to happen and others who are extremely disappointed\u201d. People have told her that without this confirmation of charges, maybe people would forget about transitional justice<\/a> for the crimes committed in the war between Uganda and the LRA. \u201cSo, the conversation stays open. Some were also hoping that the crimes of the government would be brought to the fore again\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Atingo, \u201cat the end, this hearing will cause victims a lot of distress. I don\u2019t want to use the term trauma, but distress at the end because maybe, they will lose trust\u201d. She explains that sometimes it\u2019s difficult for observers in northern Uganda to understand what it is that ICC wants, which can lead to mistrust of its motivation behind the hearings. \u201cIs it employment that they are looking for to continue existing?\u201d, some end up wondering.<\/p>\n\n\n

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