A Ugandan defence lawyer asks whether or not the Worldwide Legal 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 little one soldier to be prosecuted by the Worldwide Legal Court docket (ICC).
His consumer, Dominic Ongwen, was 9 years outdated when he turned one in all not less than 20,000 kids kidnapped by insurgent chief Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Military (LRA) in Uganda.
He’s charged with 70 counts of various conflict crimes, together with torture, rape and homicide. However Ayena desires him acquitted, elevating important questions on accountability when somebody is each sufferer and perpetrator, and what justice means when prosecuted in a world courtroom far-off from the crime scene.
Theatre of Violence is a documentary movie by Lukasz Konopa and Emil Langballe.
