Lord’s Resistance Army Victims in Uganda are Dissatisfied with their Sentencing

Thomas Kwoyelo was given 40 years in prison for war crimes including murder, rape, enslavement, pillaging, torture, and kidnapping.
He will, however, have to spend only 25 more behind bars as he has already been in custody for 15 years. Victim Grace Apio said the sentence seemed very lenient for those who suffered terrible atrocities at the hands of the LRA rebels.
“We feel very bad, our properties that were destroyed, the children we produced in captivity. We’re really suffering,” she said. Apio added that the court ruling will send the wrong message to other people who want to start war in Uganda.
You can carry out these crimes, receive a low sentence, and then return to society and begin a new life,” she remarked. Because Kwoyelo was kidnapped by the rebel group as a child and has since expressed regret, he was spared the death penalty. The LRA was established in the late 1980s with the intention of toppling the government and establishing a state according to the Ten Commandments as interpreted by its commander, Joseph Kony.
For almost 20 years, it fought the government from bases in the country’s north. The militants were notoriously violent, chopping off victims’ mouths and limbs and abducting minors to use as sex slaves and warriors. He has refuted the accusations against Kwoyelo.
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