Dominic Ongwen, a senior commander in the Lord's Resistance Army, whose fugitive leader Kony is one of the world's most-wanted war crimes suspects, enters the court room of the International Court in The Hague, Netherlands, December 6, 2016. REUTERS/Peter Dejong/Pool
THE HAGUE (Reuters) - An alleged senior commander in the infamous Lord's Resistance Army was notorious among his fellow soldiers for enslaving and raping particularly young girls, beating those who resisted, the International Criminal Court was told on Tuesday.
Addressing judges at the start of the trial, the court's chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda said the fact that Dominic Ongwen was himself a victim of LRA leader Joseph Kony's campaign of child kidnapping was at most a mitigating circumstance.
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