{"id":73327,"date":"2021-02-05T13:22:57","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T12:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/?p=73327"},"modified":"2021-02-05T13:22:59","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T12:22:59","slug":"icc-how-to-interpret-ongwens-conviction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/73327-icc-how-to-interpret-ongwens-conviction.html","title":{"rendered":"ICC: How to interpret Ongwen's conviction?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Fully responsible and guilty. Yesterday, on February 4th, seventeen years after the Ugandan authorities asked the International Criminal Court to investigate the northern Ugandan conflict, former Lord's Resistance Army commander Dominic Ongwen was found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity. A clear verdict and a clear defeat for the defense victim-perpetrator narrative, that our partners from Asymmetrical Haircuts decipher in this timely podcast with no more than four top experts: Thijs Bouwknegt, Kjell Anderson, Sharon Nakandha, Mark Drumbl.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>To listen to the podcast, click on the \"play\" button below:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.blubrry.com\/id\/73477995\/#time-0&darkOrLight-Light&shownotes-ffffff&shownotesBackground-ffc72c&download-ffffff&downloadBackground-382e2c&subscribe-ffffff&subscribeBackground-9b9593&share-382e2c&shareBackground-ffffff\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"138px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>So, finally, seventeen years after the Ugandan authorities asked the International Criminal Court to get involved in the conflict in northern Uganda, former Lords Resistance Army commander Dominic Ongwen was <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.icc-cpi.int\/CourtRecords\/CR2021_01026.PDF\" target=\"_blank\">found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity<\/a>. We discuss the judgment details and the way we are fascinated by the \u2018tragic perpetrator\u2019 narrative of former child soldier turned rebel leader, Ongwen. Hear from <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thijsbouwknegt\" target=\"_blank\">Thijs Bouwknegt<\/a>, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Kjell_Anderson\" target=\"_blank\">Kjell Anderson<\/a>, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SherryKyama\" target=\"_blank\">Sharon Nakandha<\/a>, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/law.wlu.edu\/faculty\/full-time-faculty\/mark-drumbl\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Drumbl<\/a>, and sound from the presiding judge and Ongwen\u2019s lawyer.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"content-encadre\">\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"pull-left\" title=\"Asymmetrical Haircuts podcast\" src=\"media\/Asymmetrical-Haircuts-podcast_logo.png\" alt=\"Asymmetrical Haircuts podcast\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/>ASYMMETRICAL HAIRCUTS<br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This podcast has been published as part of a partnership between JusticeInfo.net and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Asymmetrical Haircuts<\/a>, a podcast on international justice produced from The Hague by journalists Janet Anderson and Stephanie van den Berg, who retain full control and independence over the contents of the podcast.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fully responsible and guilty. Yesterday, on February 4th, seventeen years after the Ugandan authorities asked the International Criminal Court to investigate the northern Ugandan conflict, former Lord's Resistance Army commander Dominic Ongwen was found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity. A clear verdict and a clear defeat for the defense victim-perpetrator narrative, that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":73330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[562,569],"tags":[2685],"ji_location":[2531],"class_list":["post-73327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-icc","category-podcast","tag-dominic-ongwen-en","ji_location-uganda"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.3.1 (Yoast SEO v25.3.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>ICC: How to interpret Ongwen&#039;s conviction? - JusticeInfo.net<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/73327-icc-how-to-interpret-ongwens-conviction.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ICC: How to interpret Ongwen&#039;s conviction?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Fully responsible and guilty. 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