Ex-rebel leader Thomas Kwoyelo was sentenced to 40 years for war crimes including multiple murders, rapes, pillaging, and enslavement.

Thomas Kwoyelo, the former commander in the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), has been sentenced to 40 years in prison after being convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity. The sentence was handed down by a four-judge panel of the International Crimes Division (ICD) of the High court, sitting at Gulu in northern Uganda.

A former commander of the Lord’s Resistance Army rebels was sentenced by a court in Uganda on Friday to 40 years in prison for brutal crimes committed by the group during its insurgency that started in the 1980s.

A Ugandan court has sentenced former Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) commander Thomas Kwoyelo to 40 years in prison. This decision follows ..|News Track

A Ugandan court has sentenced a former commander in the notorious Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) to 40 years in prison following a landmark war crimes trial. Thomas Kwoyelo was found guilty of 44 charges,

Thomas Kwoyelo, who rose through the ranks of Kony's terror group after being abducted at the age of 12, has been sentenced to four decades behind bars, in the first case of its kind in the East African country.

One Ugandan court don sentence a former commander for di notorious Lords Resistance Army (LRA) to 40 years in prison afta one ogbonge landmark war crimes trial.