ICC to present evidence against fugitive warlord Joseph Kony in court's first in absentia hearing

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ICC to present evidence against fugitive warlord Joseph Kony in court's first in absentia hearing  International Criminal Court prosecutors will present evidence on Tuesday to back up charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity against notorious fugitive Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony at the global court’s first-ever in absentia hearing.   READ MORE : http://www.africanews.com/2025/09/08/icc-to-present-evidence-against-fugitive-warlord-joseph-kony-in-courts-first-in-absentia-h  Subscribe on our Dailymotion channel and receive all the latest news from the continent.    Africanews is available in English and French.  Website : www.africanews.com  Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/africanews.channel/  Twitter : https://twitter.com/africanews

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00:00Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court in The Hague will present evidence on Tuesday

00:05to back up charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity brought against fugitive

00:10Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony. It will be the court's first ever in-absentia hearing. Judges

00:18will determine whether or not to confirm the charges against Kony, but he can't be tried

00:23in his absence. Kony faces dozens of counts of crimes against humanity and war crimes

00:29including murder, sexual enslavement and rape for allegedly leading the brutal Lord's

00:35Resistance Army that terrorized northern Uganda. Kony founded the extremist Christian rebel group

00:42in 1987. It went on to abduct, mutilate and kill thousands of civilians in northern Uganda and

00:50across Central and East Africa. In 2005, the ICC issued arrest lawrence against Kony and other

00:58top commanders. Tuesday's hearing is seen as a test case for other proceedings where the

01:04suspect is not in custody, such as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Russia's Vladimir Putin.

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