The International Criminal Court will decide on Thursday on an appeal by a Ugandan child soldier-turned-commander in the Lord's Resistance Army against his conviction and 25-year sentence for war crimes.
Dominic Ongwen, who was abducted aged nine by the rebel group led by the fugitive Joseph Kony, was found guilty last year of murder, rape and sexual enslavement in northern Uganda during the early 2000s.
Defence lawyers argued earlier this year that Ongwen's conviction and sentence should be overturned as he had been scarred by his own experience as a child soldier. Ongwen, whose nom de guerre was"White Ant", was found guilty on 61 charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity, which also included charges of himself turning young abductees into child soldiers.
But Ongwen's lawyers have appealed the conviction on 90 different grounds and the sentence on 11, saying there were errors in"law, fact and procedure".
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