The chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (ICC) has renewed his call for the arrest of fugitives from Uganda and Sudan wanted for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

'The responsibility for this is with the (member) states,' Luis Moreno-Ocampo said during a conference in Chicago, held to mark the 10th anniversary of the ICC's founding treaty, the Rome Statute. Moreno-Ocampo lamented that Joseph Kony, the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, LRA, which has fought a 20-year war in northern Uganda, was still free. Kony and two others under his command are wanted by the ICC for crimes against humanity and war crimes committed during the insurgency. Moreno-Ocampo described the LRA as 'a small militia', but one that had a big impact in central Africa. 'Massive crimes affect world security across borders and effect different regions of the world,' he said. In a special report, IWPR confirmed that the LRA had resumed violence, looting and abducting civilians, and was operating in the Central African Republic and Sudan as well as the Democratic Republic of Congo, where it has spent more than two years in the remote Garamba National Park.
Full IWPR report
Special IWPR report (LRA Prepares for War, not Peace)