CRIMINAL ACCOUNTABILITY

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Precedents


The International Criminal Court is currently investigating four cases that involved the issuance of 13 arrest warrants. Four individuals have been apprehended and are now in a detention facility in The Hague, Netherlands.

 

Situation Referred by Crimes Accused Warrants and arrests Status
Northern Uganda
Ugandan Government (Dec 2003) Murder, slavery, sexual slavery, rape, and forced enlisting of child soldiers Joseph Kony - Head of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA)
Vincent Otti – Deputy Leader of the LRA
Raska Lukwiya – 3rd in command of the LRA
Okot Odhiambo – Senior Leader of the LRA
Dominic Ongwen – LRA Sinia Brigade Commander
5 warrants issued 2 suspects have died, while the remaining 3 remain at large
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
DRC Government
(Mar 2004)
Forced enlisting of child soldiers, sexual slavery, murder Thomas Lubanga – Former rebel leader of the Union of Congolese Patriots
Germain Katanga – Former leader of the Patriotic Resistance Force in Ituri (FRPI)
Mathieu Ngudjolo Chu – Congolese Army Colonel and former Senior Commander of the National Integrationist Front and the FRPI
Bosco Ntaganda – Military Chief of Staff of the National Congress for the Defense of the People (CNDP)
4 warrants issued and
3 arrests
Trial ongoing
Central African Republic (CAR)
CAR Government
(Dec 2004)
Murder, rape, torture Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo – Former DRC Vice President and Senator 1 arrest warrant issued and 1 arrest Trial ongoing
Darfur, Sudan
UN Security Council
(Mar 2005)

Murder, extermination, forcible transfer, torture and rape Ahmed Haroun – Former Minister of State for Humanitarian Affairs
Ali Kushayb – Former Senior Janjaweed Commander
Omar al-Bashir – President of Sudan
3 warrants issued 3 suspects remain at large