ICC Opens War Crimes Case Against Ugandan Rebel Leader Joseph Kony

Описание: (9 Sep 2025)
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Kampala, Uganda – 9 September 2025
1. Wide of Kampala Road
2. Various of motorbikes on Kampala Road
3. Various set up shots of Herbert Okello, Lawyer and victim of LRA War
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Herbert Okello Andrew, Ugandan Lawyer:
“On paper, it feels like the entire proceedings are moot, only serving academic purposes. But in reality, direct victims, the people that lost lives, the people that lost lips, limbs, lands and livelihoods are directly affected and are directly invested in this trial. For them, it is a pursuit of justice that has eluded them for a very long time. They believe that maybe justice may be served, Maybe Joseph Kony one day may be found, and if the proceedings are ongoing then I don’t think they hurt to have the ball rolling – the ball of justice rolling.”
5. Medium of Betty Bigombe, former Peace negotiator during LRA War
6. Various of Kampala streets
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Betty Bigombe, Former Peace Negotiator:
“There is always that saying that 'justice delayed is justice denied,' irrespective. The fact that it has taken very very long, some of the victims who would have wanted to know what happened, to get justice are dead, some of them had given up. That is why I started with the usual saying that 'justice delayed is justice denied.' This should have taken place much much earlier.”
8. Various of Kampala streets
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Betty Bigombe, Former Peace Negotiator:
“There is no shortage of evidence. The fact that there is evidence and that it is going to be carried out and people know that it will be taken, it gives some kind of satisfaction to the victims. And he also, wherever he is, realizes that his crimes are still haunting him, that he is still being chased, he is still being looked for, so that one day he cannot just say he is given up and he is set free.”
10. Various setup shots of Grace Matsiko a journalist and security analyst
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Grace Matsiko, security analyst:
“First of all, the threat is still there because we don’t know where they are. And we may not even give the exact figure of how many they are. Even the family members that have returned to Uganda cannot tell exactly where they last communicated, including his children, who say they last communicated with Joseph Kony 10 years ago. So someone still in the jungle 10 years ago can still be as lethal as someone who has just vanished today.”
12. Wide of Kampala Road

STORYLINE:
Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court began presenting evidence Tuesday to support charges against fugitive Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony at the court’s first ever in absentia hearing, alleging he inflicted horrors that still echo two decades later.

Kony is facing 39 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity as the fugitive leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army, or LRA, which terrorized northern Uganda for decades.

The LRA began its attacks in Uganda in the 1980s, when Kony sought to overthrow the government.

After being pushed out of Uganda, the militia went on to attack villages in Congo, Central African Republic and South Sudan.

It was notorious for using child soldiers, mutilating civilians and enslaving women.

Okello Herbert, a lawyer from northern Uganda told the Associated Press during an interview that he is keenly following the proceedings.

"Direct victims, the people that lost lives, the people that lost lips, limbs, lands and livelihoods are directly affected and are directly invested in this trial," he said.













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