The International Criminal Court in the Hague will today at 12pm give a ruling on the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) commander Dominic Ongwen.

45 yr old Ongwen has been tried at the ICC on 70 counts for offenses he committed while serving as a commander under rebel leader  Joseph Kony.

Ogwen and Kony are the only surviving members of six others who were taken to the ICC for crimes against humanity in northern Uganda in 2005.

Others are Vincent Otti, Raska Lukwiya, and Odhiambo Okot .

The group tortured, cut off lips, initiated child soldiers, raped, looted, and killed people at the Lukodi, Pajule, Odek, and Abok refugee camp in northern Uganda among other places like  Oyam districts killing,  among other crimes committed by the insurgents.

In his defense at the ICC Ogwen told the court that he was not directly responsible for the crimes committed to people in northern Uganda as he was abducted by Kony’s rebels as a child on his way to school and trained into the evil acts.

His defense lawyers argued that Ogwen, nicknamed the “White Ant”,  cannot be held responsible for the violence he was trained and convinced to commit and have asked for him to be acquitted.

But the prosecution says he could have left the rebel movement when he became an adult at the age of 18.

Joseph Kony, who is the leader of the rebel group remains at large and is a subject of an ICC arrest warrant.