{"id":15949,"date":"2015-01-14T18:44:44","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T18:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=15949"},"modified":"2015-01-15T10:13:36","modified_gmt":"2015-01-15T10:13:36","slug":"lras-ongwen-will-not-be-brought-to-uganda-updf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/lras-ongwen-will-not-be-brought-to-uganda-updf\/","title":{"rendered":"LRA&#8217;s Ongwen will not be brought to Uganda-UPDF"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_15991\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15991\" style=\"width: 2448px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Ongwen-handed-over.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15991\" src=\"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Ongwen-handed-over.jpg\" alt=\"Dominic Ongwen handed over to UPDF in CAR\" width=\"2448\" height=\"3264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Ongwen-handed-over.jpg 2448w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Ongwen-handed-over-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Ongwen-handed-over-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Ongwen-handed-over-950x1267.jpg 950w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Ongwen-handed-over-150x200.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Ongwen-handed-over-180x240.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2448px) 100vw, 2448px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15991\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dominic Ongwen handed over to UPDF in CAR<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LRA\u2019s second in Command Dominic Ongwen is to be flown directly to the Hague for trial by CAR authorities.<br \/>\nAccording to the army spokesperson Lt. Col Paddy Ankunda, he is expected to be sent to the ICC in the next three days.<br \/>\nThis is after he was today handed over to the UPDF by the US Special Forces.<br \/>\nOngwen is now in custody of the UPDF contingent of the African Union \u2013Regional Task Force in Central African Republic.<br \/>\nEarlier we spoke to the Head of Public Affairs at the US Mission in Kampala Daniel Travis about this development.<br \/>\nTravis said all parties involved including the government of CAR, Uganda, ICC, US, and AU all agreed earlier that the mutual goal was to ensure that Ongwen faces justice.<br \/>\nThe UPDF is expected to debrief him as part of military and legal procedures.<br \/>\nIn a separate development, the government is not ready to apologise for President Museveni\u2019s recent stinging attacks on International Criminal Court.<br \/>\nIn his address during the Kenya\u2019s independence celebrations, Museveni said that he was done with the court and promised to lead a mass exodus of African states from the ICC.<br \/>\nThe State minister for Foreign Affairs Henry Okello Oryem says the president had been misunderstood.<br \/>\nHis remarks followed government\u2019s decision to forward Lord\u2019s Resistance Army senior commander Dominic Ongwen to The Hague where he is wanted on seven counts of crimes against humanity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LRA\u2019s second in Command Dominic Ongwen is to be flown directly to the Hague for trial by CAR authorities. According to the army spokesperson Lt. Col Paddy Ankunda, he is expected to be sent to the ICC in the next three days. This is after he was today handed over to the UPDF by the US Special Forces. Ongwen is now in custody of the UPDF contingent of the African Union \u2013Regional Task Force in Central African Republic. Earlier we spoke to the Head of Public Affairs at the US Mission in Kampala Daniel Travis about this development. Travis said all parties involved including the government of CAR, Uganda, ICC, US, and AU all agreed earlier that the mutual goal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15949"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}