Race, Culture and Mental Illness in the International Criminal Court's Ongwen Judgment: Biases and Blindspots

Dominic Ongwen was abducted in 1987 when he was 8 or 9 years old  by the Lord’s Resistance Army (‘LRA’) in Northern Uganda and trafficked as a child soldier; he made multiple unsuccessful attempts to escape, and finally succeeded in late 2014.  He turned himself into the International Criminal Court in 2015 and was prosecuted.  Mr. Ongwen’s defence was that he...