A Ugandan defence lawyer asks whether or not the Worldwide Felony Court docket (ICC) is imposing a brand new type of colonialism.
Krispus Ayena is appointed defence lawyer in The Hague to defend the primary former baby soldier to be prosecuted by the Worldwide Felony Court docket (ICC).
His shopper, Dominic Ongwen, was 9 years previous when he grew to become one in all a minimum of 20,000 youngsters kidnapped by insurgent chief Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Military (LRA) in Uganda.
He’s charged with 70 counts of various struggle crimes, together with torture, rape and homicide. However Ayena desires him acquitted, elevating very important questions on accountability when somebody is each sufferer and perpetrator, and what justice means when prosecuted in a global court docket distant from the crime scene.
Theatre of Violence is a documentary movie by Lukasz Konopa and Emil Langballe.
