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Africa-Press<\/a> – Uganda<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Survivors of the Lord\u2019s Resistance Army\u2019s (LRA) two-decade insurgency in Lango and Acholi sub-regions have expressed mixed reactions as they wait for the outcome of Thursday\u2019s judgment by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Dominic Ongwen, a former top commander in the rebel group .<\/p>\n

Ongwen faces 70 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity that he allegedly committed in internally displaced camps in northern Uganda under the leadership of Joseph Kony.Mr Patrick Abeja, the Abok Sub-county chairperson in Oyam District, says whether Ongwen is convicted or acquitted, the victims want compensation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe most important thing now is not the outcome of the ICC ruling on Ongwen, but the government to compensate the war victims,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

DeathsAccording to United Nations estimates, about 100,000 people were killed in the insurgency and about 1.8 million displaced and property destroyed.<\/p>\n

Mr Abeja asked government to construct a vocational school in the area to train orphans whose parents died during the insurgency.<\/p>\n

So far, the government has constructed Abok Seed Secondary School in Abok Sub-county.<\/p>\n

At Coroom Village, Lamogi Sub-county in Amuru District where Ongwen hails from, residents are eagerly waiting for the verdict.<\/p>\n

Mr Federiko Olanya, 57, hopes that Ongwen is set free.\u201cAs much as Ongwen commanded the killings of his own people, one should consider the age at which he was recruited into the LRA. Whatever he did was on orders of Kony,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

However, Mr Francis Obwoya, a resident of Otong Village in Pabbo Sub-county, disagrees. \u201cOngwen was the engine of the atrocities in northern Uganda. How would he feel if his limbs and lips were cut off,?\u201d he asks.<\/p>\n

Mr Obwoya says the former LRA commander and his colleagues should compensate the families who lost their relatives to insurgency. \u201cWe suffered in IDP camps yet we had our fertile land back at home. I lost many of my livestock when people were forced to move to the IDP camps,\u201d he recalls.<\/p>\n

Mr Faustine Opio, 73, a resident of Olwal Mucaca, Amuru Sub-county, says after the trial, Ogwen should be subjected to mato-oput, an Acholi traditional justice system that involves taking of bitter herbs and reconciliation between warrying parties.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur culture believes in truth telling for the offence committed so that reconciliation is reached rather than getting into the formal courts,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Ms Kezia Akumu Okot, a resident of Lukodi Village, Bungatira Sub-county in Gulu District, says Ongwen should be jailed for life.<\/p>\n

\u201cI lost my husband and son who had gone to the garden to collect some food, their remains have never been seen up to date and all that was the work of Ongwen,\u201d Ms Okot says. Mr Denis Hobly Oyite, a social worker, says Ongwen might be acquitted because he was coerced to commit atrocities against his own people.<\/p>\n

More than 300 people were murdered by Kony\u2019s rebels, upon raiding Barlonyo IDP camp in the present Agweng Sub-county in Lira District on February 21, 2004.<\/p>\n

Reported by Bill Oketch, Patrick Ebong, Cissy Makumbi & Geoffrey Okot<\/b><\/p>\n

editorial@ug.nationmedia.com<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Uganda. Survivors of the Lord\u2019s Resistance Army\u2019s (LRA) two-decade insurgency in Lango and Acholi sub-regions have expressed mixed reactions as they wait for the outcome of Thursday\u2019s judgment by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Dominic Ongwen, a former top commander in the rebel group . 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