A former commander of the Lord’s Resistance Army rebels has been sentenced to 40 years in prison by a court in Uganda for the brutal crimes committed by the group during its insurgency that began in the 1980s.
The ex-rebel commander, a former child soldier turned leader, will serve 25 years in jail as he has already spent 15 years in government custody. The court ruling applies to the most serious crimes he faced, including multiple counts of murder, rape, pillaging, and enslavement.
