At the end of January the chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court announced that the court would take on leaders of the Lord’s Resistance Army in its first cases.
ICC Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said that the court would collective evidence and issue arrest warrants against leaders of the Ugandan rebels who have kidnapped as many as 20,000 children during the last two decades.
Source:
First International Criminal Court Case Targets Uganda’s Rebels. UN Wire, January 30, 2004.