KAMPALA - Uganda’s military has killed a senior northern rebel wanted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, a spokesman said on Sunday. Raska Lukwiya was one of five commanders from the elusive Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) named by the new world court in its first arrest warrants in October.‘We got him yesterday in Kitgum district after he staged an ambush on Friday night. Lukwiya is dead,’ a Ugandan army spokesman said by telephone. He said the body had been identified by former rebels. An LRA spokesman said he could not confirm if Lukwiya was dead.
Experts were cautious, saying the Ugandan military has often claimed to have killed top LRA fighters who are later found alive. In October, it said another ICC target, Dominic Ongwen, had been killed in northern Uganda. Last month, the ICC said Ongwen was alive and trying to join LRA chief Joseph Kony in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.| Sorta like Belushi in the Rasputin skit ... |
The ICC has charged Lukwiya with four counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity including enslavement, attacking civilians and pillaging. An Interpol ‘red notice’ for his arrest issued in June includes a rare, grainy photograph of the