(SomaliNet) The court Director for International Cooperation has asked the 105 state parties to enforce the warrants issued against the indicted top four Lord Resistance Army commanders, since the International Criminal Court does not have its own police to execute arrest warrants. Ms Beatrice Le Fraper du Hellen recently said the 105 state parties (members to Rome Statute) should ensure that LRA leader Joseph Kony, his deputy, Vincent Otti and top commanders, Dominic Ogwen and Okot Odiambo are arrested and surrendered to The Hague for trial on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity. “Those arrest warrants must be executed and enforced by Uganda, DR Congo and other 105 state parties to the Rome Statute. Kony and his commanders must be jailed,” Ms Fraper said in an interview with Daily Monitor in The Hague.
Kony and his commanders face 33 counts that include abduction of civilians, murder, sexual enslavement, mutilation and forceful recruitment of children as fighters, porters and sex slaves to serve the LRA. The fifth indicted LRA commander, Raska Lukwiya, was killed in August last year in a battle with the government forces in Kitgum District.
Ms Fraper said in order to speedup the arrest of the commanders, the rebels should be isolated by cutting off their financial and supply network to ensure they donÂ’t re-arm and get food. She said there is no contradiction in the search for peace and justice in northern Uganda since the two processes are complimentary.
The LRA insurgency has displaced over 1.7 million people, claimed 100,000 lives and over 75,000 children and women have been abducted.