Ugandan defense lawyers ask if the International Criminal Court (ICC) is imposing a new form of colonialism.
Crispus Ayena has been appointed as a defense lawyer in The Hague to defend the first former child soldier to be tried by the International Criminal Court (ICC).
His client, Dominic Ongwen, was nine years old when he became one of at least 20,000 children abducted by rebel leader Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in Uganda.
He has been charged with 70 counts of various war crimes, including torture, rape and murder. But Ayena wants him acquitted, raising important questions about accountability when someone is both victim and perpetrator, and what justice means when tried in an international court far from the scene of the crime.
Theater of Violence is a documentary film by Lukasz Konopa and Emile Langballe.
