The International Criminal Court on Thursday unveiled 60 new war crimes against Dominic Ongwen, the deputy leader of Uganda’s brutal Lord’s Resistance Army.
The new charges include using child soldiers and keeping sex slaves.
The Hague based court said that the prosecution had given formal notice that it intended to expand the scope of the charges laid against Ongwen.
The court plans to file the additional charges on December 21, meaning Ongwen now faces a total of 67 counts.
Ongwen is the first leader of the Ugandan rebel army to appear before the ICC.
Ongwen, otherwise known as the ‘White Ant’, was one of the most senior commanders of the LRA, which is accused of killing more than 100,000 people and abducting over 60,00 children.
The former child soldier turned warlord had been on the wanted-list of the ICC for almost a decade for the war crimes.
He surrendered to US Special Forces in the Central African Republic in January, after Washington placed a $5m bounty on his head.
The ICC, in a bid to bring the hearings closer to victims who always watch from afar, earlier this month recommended that a hearing to determine whether Ongwen should go on trial should be held in Uganda.
