Calls for Kony arrest to be revoked

Lawyers of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) are ready to file an application for the withdrawal of the International Criminal Court indictments against Ugandan Joseph Kony and his senior commanders. The other indicted rebel leaders are Okot Odhiambo and Dominic Ongwen. According to a New Vision report, the lawyers, Caleb Alaka and Jane Anywar, last week met senior counsels of the court registry in The Hague, Netherlands, and were included on the list of counsels.

The lawyers, accompanied by other members of the LRA peace team, were in The Hague to establish whether the court was a stumbling block to the peace process, and to study its procedures with a view to challenging the indictments. Since the Ugandan Government and the rebels signed an agreement on accountability and reconciliation, providing for a special division in the High Court to try the offenders, the arrest warrants are in doubt and nobody is willing to execute them, Alaka claimed.