The ICC’s landmark trial of a former child soldier | Witness Documentary

Krispus Ayena is appointed defence lawyer in The Hague to defend the first former child soldier to be prosecuted by the International Criminal Court (ICC).
His client, Dominic Ongwen, was nine years old when he became one of at least 20,000 children abducted by rebel leader Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in Uganda.
He is charged with 70 counts of different war crimes, including torture, rape and murder. But Ayena wants him acquitted, raising vital questions about accountability when someone is both victim and perpetrator, and what justice means when prosecuted in an international court far away from the crime scene.
Theatre of Violence is a documentary film by Lukasz Konopa and Emil Langballe.
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[@Donetravlin]

This is like the bad guys in East Asia raised in a culture that justifying their occupation and fighting for it as it is like it was an existential threat because their experience in Europe

[@dopeboi13yearsago9]

i will never take ICC as serious as they think they are, not until they convict Netanyahu

[@KoreanKing-f9d]

Exactly 😂😢😅. Show me the Israel one not the African man who use to live in the bushes

[@martinandama9279]

Perhaps even other leaders who orchestrated the Japan USA war.... destroying a whole generation. Perhaps the Vietnamese should ask the ICC about war crimes committed on their home soil by their attackers. Perhaps...the Ukrainians have a say about atrocities they keep fighting against. If u understand why "not all animals are equal..." even before the law, then u will forever hold your peace.

[@dopeboi13yearsago9]

@ 🖤🖤🖤 so true. the ICC has been a joke since its inception.

[@tuforu4]

​@@martinandama9279 PUTIN

[@rasempress9724]

@@KoreanKing-f9d clearly ur history studies did not include study of the GREAT African civilisations…feh

[@paulka90]

You bring Paul Kagame to court , is the only criminal who's being treated as king , he has been killing Congolese since 1996 but never brought before the court

[@omucholiwamwe2625]

This is the worst judgement in human history. I am Acholi from Gulu. I myself I'm a victim of the LRA pains and have survived abduction severally and I lost my grandpa and uncle in the hands of the LRA as well as my mother's rib injury from a kick with boots to her ribs infront of us because she refused to report where our father was, I was shot at several bullets as we fled home at 6am morning attack.All the stories aside too many, maybe if I was abducted I would be In the same place Ongwen is today. He was abducted a child and brainwashed and forced into all these actions. Everything we do today is based on how we were brought up, mental and psychological upbringing influences our reasoning and decision making. If u were raised to believe dog meat is sweet, u will enjoy it with no problem and if u are told it's bad, if u eat it by mistake, u will even throw up.😢😢😢 Poor man has suffered pains only we actually know the real stories and experienced a part of it know and understand 😢. May he serve in peace and find cure and peace and restore his mental fitness.

[@EmenyuOgwangNicholas]

TThe colonialists are to blame for all the problems in Africa. At least the biggest majority of problems. The whites and Arabs shouldn’t have introduced their religious beliefs to Africa we wouldn’t be here dealing with such.

[@prinsespluis]

Thank you for sharing your heartbreaking story 😢

[@zizibaby100]

Thank you Sir. Tears wont help right now but they don't stop falling.

[@garynombelana9958]

The ICC uses first world lenses to judge on developing world's issues.

[@joshuaombaka3116]

A luo from Kenya. I find it quite interesting to listen to his native language. I can somehow get a few words

[@Afrorack]

I am not a Luo but I am from Western Uganda at the border with Rwanda but the last time I visited Kenya I heard a song in Luyha and I could understand everything

[@naomih.kinuva7562]

I also heard him speak, and a few words sounded Luo

[@zainabismael5490]

@@joshuaombaka3116 me too hahaa

[@jimwaxndungu3452]

Sounds more like luo by the way

[@SerifoEbnerJuwara]

The grandma in the classroom in front of those people. Grandma is saying a powerful words. Sensitive words. God bless you grandma ❤21:49

[@LucasMoyo-r9c]

Where is joseph Kony?

[@JJC-s5g]

@@LucasMoyo-r9c still hiding in the jungle they gave up looking for him it seems

[@nancyokosi1]

@@LucasMoyo-r9c uganda?

[@MarvineBeastyBoy]

When will George Bush be prosecuted

[@RealAaron317]

Never

[@GBabuu]

And Tony Blair?

[@BADt0OtH]

This is where Netanyahu belongs

[@wycliffenyamweya.w]

How? So what Hamas did was ok?

[@tuforu4]

..putin..

[@kylea1436]

​@@wycliffenyamweya.wWhat does Palestinian women and children being slaughtered en masse from far above via 2,000 lb bunker busted bombs have to do with Hamas?

[@alieusannoh4185]

Where are all the war criminals from other nations?

[@kainerugabakamusyo]

Where are charges against colonialism and all the tragedies that happened to indigenous people, animals and plants?

[@susicolin5076]

Not all child victims become perpetrators. The vast majority does not. Ongwen's friend escaped when he had a chance and became a non-violent man, as far as I can tell. There is something in perpetrators that makes them desire having power over others, and that has nothing to do with upbringing. However, there is also a kind of unholy alliance between religion, power and crime that justifies this kind of behavior - see ISIS and djihad, or forced Christian conversion, for example.

[@MaryWoods-n9s]

I was a child victim and didn't become a perpetrator...GOD kept me from that

[@Jaceelman]

When natanyahu is court date? Please thank you

[@RealAaron317]

Never lol

[@Jaceelman]

@RealAaron317 what is natanyahu next Court Day? Please thank you Sir

[@Jaceelman]

@RealAaron317 did he hire lawyer?

[@Jaceelman]

@RealAaron317 do you think he is guilty for committing war crimes and genocide)

[@Jaceelman]

@RealAaron317 what you think natanyahu is looser looser criminals and fugitive and most wanted Man in the world?

[@mbogKyana]

The violence obote started, its sad to see innocent people paying for the mistakes of old guards

[@changkuothpal2320]

Please bring Salva Kiir of South Sudan instead of sentencing this innocent child soldier

[@Uganda2theworld]

why don't you call on museven's government too

[@sparkleb.9221]

Very powerful documentary. I'm glad that he was charged and sentenced, you could say a fair sentence. I hope the victims are able to heal and live in peace now. Of course the other perpetrators should also be brought to justice.

[@HowToMzansi1]

I pray that everyone reading this is blessed and know that it will all work out. ❤

[@zainabismael5490]

I will never take i cc serious

[@AmosGakuoPhD]

I wish there was an African judge on the bench.Dominic should appeal.

[@ousmanekontao6438]

@AmosGakuoPhD Unfortunately my friend, he is a murderer. These guys fell remorseful when they get caught and denied all the crimes they commit, remember, somebody have to be hold accountable for their actions. Don't feel sorry for this idiot killer!

[@mnyomb1]

Arrest Museveni too what are you waiting for???

[@SisaNogaga]

Bad lawyer this one, even worse they brought that idiot of a spiritual advisor , the defense was very bad

[@mbaleduthomas]

I pray that one day the ICC indites president Museveni coz he has also committed crimes against humanity in many parts of Uganda

[@paulka90]

When will Netanyahu be arrested???

[@RealAaron317]

Never

[@hadassah1603]

I agree with the former child soldiers attorney

[@migirenick7028]

They brought us the bible. People like Elijah, Samson, and many others qualify imprisonment. Ongwen became a victim because he believed in this book wholly. How do we know these madders were not spiritually guided?

[@eliasbranham9132]

I don't get why Africans still take people to ICC this is disgraceful why not try him in Ugandan courts

[@chigozieezza1174]

Ongwen got justice despite being a victim of the crime he was brought into a such a young age. However, he can't be exculpated for the crimes because he committed them and he admitted that he did. Facts admitted need no further prove. It is a sad story but it was the right decision.

[@Zairenazande]

The man was forced to commit all the crimes . Those of us who have had similar experiences can till you that,survival comes with price untill chance of escape presents itself. ICC should have send delegations to release the abducted kids and make it clear to the government to accept escaped or freed kids unconditionally. Dont rush to judgment while the real war criminals are flying in private jets.

[@ALXUSNIMEDIA]

Amazing 🎉

[@Jaceelman]

Are WE going to see live CNN NBC News or Al Jazeera News English live please thank you

[@flightinflightsim]

TLDR found guilty and sentenced to 25 years 45:30

[@promotertamale2952]

Am a Ugandan but what if museven uses he tricks behave as rable and started killing people in the name of reble and yet they are not?? Who invest get that?

[@tadichaguyo290]

F ICC

[@lazarodancun4723]

why only africans