The International Criminal Court (ICC) will hold hearings against fugitive Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony, nearly 20 years after issuing its first arrest warrant.
On Tuesday, judges in The Hague will examine 39 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity, including murder, rape, sexual slavery, and pillaging.
Kony, leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), is accused of an insurgency that killed over 100,000 people and abducted over 60,000 children, with atrocities spreading across Uganda, Sudan, South Sudan, DR Congo, and the Central African Republic.
This will be the ICC’s first-ever hearing in absentia, aimed at preparing for a swift trial if Kony is captured.