The Hague-based court according to the press release, said it will only hear out the opening statements on that day.This will then be followed by the presentation of the evidence by the prosecution in January 2017.

The setting of the trial date comes three months after the Pre-Trial chamber of the same court, confirmed all the 70 charges that were brought against Ongwen and Indeed after the pre-trial session, the court ruled that it had found enough evidence to have Ongwen stand trial for the crimes he allegedly committed during the two-decade insurgency in Northern Uganda.

The confirmed charges are in connection to LRA rebel attacks on various internally displaced people’s camps in Northern Uganda including Pajule, Odek, Lukodi and Abok.

Mr Ongwen’s trial is to be heard by a panel of three judges who include; Bertram Schmitt (presiding judge), Peter Kovacs and Raul C Pangalangan.

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The International Criminal Court has unveiled 60 new war crimes charges against the deputy leader of Uganda’s brutal Lord’s Resistance Army, including using child soldiers and keeping sex slaves. The Hague-based court said the prosecution gave formal notice that it intends to expand the scope of the charges against Dominic Ongwen.

The court plans to file the additional charges on December 21 on top of seven initial accusations meaning he now faces a total of 67 counts.

Ongwen, known as the “White Ant”, was a former child-soldier-turned-warlord who became one of the most senior commanders of the LRA. He the first leader of the brutal Ugandan rebel army  led by the fugitive Joseph Kony  to appear before the International Criminal Court which was set up to try the world’s worst crimes and is accused of killing more than 100 000 people and abducting 60 000 children.

The charges all relate to attacks carried out on camps housing people who had been forced to flee their homes in the bloody Ugandan rebellion that started in 1987.

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UPDF Spokesperson, Lt. Col. Felix Kulayigye

The uganda peoples defence force says it is working towards starting up a comprehensive counseling service for its officers.

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