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I spoke with three women gathered here to see the verdict, all former abductees. “I was not satisfied because some of the LRA commanders came home and received amnesty and are living a normal life. So why is Ongwen the only one on trial?” Said one. “I object to the court’s decision to find him guilty of those crimes. The court should have recognized that he turned himself in, he was not caught,” said another. The third said: “I too was kidnapped like Ongwen, but he was a commander in the LRA, so he should be given the maximum penalty, considering what they did to me and many children in this region. Today’s ruling I have played a lot “. She shed tears and her voice broke as she described what happened to her. “When I was kidnapped in 1996, I was two months pregnant. We walked for hours between the border with Uganda and Sudan. On the way, the rebels asked if any of us had a problem that meant we couldn’t continue in the I raised my hand. The commander asked the young soldiers to beat us with sticks. They said they would have to kill one of us that day, to dissuade the young men from trying to escape. They beat me across the stomach and chest. ” He managed to escape after only a week in the bush.
