Race, Culture and Mental Illness in the ICC's Ongwen Judgment: Biases and Blind Spots

by Beth S. Lyons

Dominic Ongwen was abducted in 1987 when he was 8 or 9 years old by the Lord's Resistance Army ('LRA') in Northern Uganda and trafficked as a child soldier; he made multiple unsuccessful attempts to escape, and finally succeeded in late 2014. He turned himself into the International Criminal Court in 2015 and was prosecuted. Mr. Ongwen's defence was that he was not responsible for the crimes of the LRA, based on his mental illnesses and duress,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031736826
• ISBN13: 9783031736827
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 171 Pages