...Terrified, Dominic did not resist or beg. The LRA’s fighting force is made up primarily of child soldiers, many forced into gruesome killing rituals to cut them off from their communities. Humanitarian agencies say 20,000 children have been abducted or killed in the war, and nearly two million people displaced. Ongwen was indicted by the ICC in July 2005, along with four others, including Joseph
Kony, the LRA’s head. But his circumstances present “a fundamental dilemma”, an ICC source in Uganda acknowledges, as he is a “veteran child soldier”. The...