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2021

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Dominic Ongwen, who was convicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes, is from which country?
A
Sudan
B
Uganda
C
Nigeria
D
Iraq
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Dominic Ongwen (born 1975) is a Ugandan former child soldier and former commander of one of the brigades of the Ugandan guerrilla group Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA ).

Detailed explanation-2: -ICC Confirms Upholds 25-year Sentence for Ugandan LRA Commander. Dominic Ongwen, a former Ugandan child soldier who became a commander of the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army, appears before the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, Dec. 15, 2022.

Detailed explanation-3: -Headquarters: The Hague, the Netherlands. There have thus far been 31 cases before the Court, with some cases having more than one suspect. ICC judges have issued 38 arrest warrants.

Detailed explanation-4: -Dominic Ongwen, abducted on his way to school at the age of nine by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), led by fugitive Joseph Kony, was convicted last year of murder, rape and sexual slavery in northern Uganda in the early 2000s.

Detailed explanation-5: -© 2019 Bullit Marquez/AP Images. On Thursday, a panel of judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague authorized the Office of the Prosecutor to resume its investigation into alleged crimes against humanity in the Philippines.

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