Dominic Ongwen

Dominic Ongwen was born in 1975 in the village of Choorum, Kilak County, Amuru district, Northern Uganda. He is a former child abductee and child soldier, and the former commander of the Sinia Brigade of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), a guerrilla group that formerly operated in northern Uganda. As the head of one of the four LRA brigades, Ongwen was a member of the "Control Altar" of the LRA that directs military strategy. He was detained by the ICC in 2014 and charged with 70 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity. On 4 February 2021 he was convicted on 61 counts.