Genocidal and Wartime Rape in Northern Uganda​

The Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) was a rebel group that instigated an armed conflict that engulfed a sizeable part of the Northern and North-Eastern region of Uganda from the mid1980s to around the year 2006. In 2005 criminal charges were brought against Joseph Kony the leader of the LRA and four other LRA rebels by the (International Criminal Court) ICC. They ranged from the killing and mutilation of civilians to the abduction of and sexual abuse of women and children.

Till today only 2 LRA rebels have been brought to Justice; one Dominic Ongwen was tried by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Netherlands and another Thomas Kwoyelo was tried by the International Crimes Division (ICD) in Uganda. The rebels subjected hundreds of women to genocidal and wartime rape which women remain affected together with their children, nicknamed the ‘children with no name’.