Uganda: ICC issues arrest warrants for five LRA leaders

The International Justice Tribune reports that it was an unusual week at the International Criminal Court (ICC), with The Hague strangely silent while in New York the UN envoy for the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) revealed the ICC's first arrest warrant. Confusingly, the office of the prosecutor announced a press conference on Friday 7 October in The Hague, only to cancel it. On the same day, it was Kampala who finally made the official announcement. "The [ICC] investigation is complete and the court has taken a decision," the Ugandan defense minister told the news agency IRIN. He said that the ICC has issued arrest warrants against five leaders of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), including its chief, Joseph Kony, vice-commander Vincent Otti, and three lieutenants, Raska Lukwiya, Okot Odhiambo and Dominic Ongwen.