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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Caroline Kimeu

Not one government has paid into fund for victims of Uganda warlord, says ICC

A person holds a sheet of paper titled 'Live radio broadcast of the sentencing of Dominic Ongwen' with a photograph of Ongwen
In 2021, the ICC sentenced Dominic Ongwen to 25 years in prison, which he is serving in Norway. Photograph: Sumy Sadurni/AFP/Getty Images

Not a single country has contributed towards reparations for the victims and survivors of the Ugandan warlord Dominic Ongwen, despite the international criminal court awarding €52.4m (£44m) in February, according to the ICC Trust Fund for Victims (TFV).

The ICC reparations order – the largest in the court’s history – was issued after a 2021 ruling in which the court found Ongwen, a former commander of the Lord’s Resistance Army militia group, guilty of various war crimes committed between 2002 and 2005, including murder, torture, sexual enslavement, the conscription of children into hostilities, and brutal attacks on four camps for internally displaced people in northern Uganda.

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