AI Index: AFR 59/001/2007 (Public)

Date: November 2007

UGANDA: ARREST WAR CRIMES SUSPECTS NOW

Your Excellency,

In July 2005, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for four senior leaders of the Lord’s Resistance Army: Joseph Kony, Okot Odhiambo, Dominic Ongwen and Vincent Otti.

The men are suspected of crimes against humanity and war crimes committed in northern Uganda, including murder, rape and recruitment of child soldiers. According to reports, they are moving between Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

A UN mission (MONUC) is deployed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, but has no clear mandate requiring it to enforce ICC arrest warrants.

I urge the UN Security Council to clarify MONUC’s mandate and to:

• ask it to search for and arrest anyone named under an ICC warrant, and surrender them to the Court;

• ensure that sufficient resources are provided to MONUC.

Yours sincerely,

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Front images (from left): Okot Odhiambo, Joseph Kony, Dominic Ongwen and Vincent Otti. © Photos courtesy of Interpol

H.E. Ambassador Marcello Spatafora

Permanent Representative of Italy to the United Nations

Permanent Mission of Italy to the United Nations

2 UN Plaza, 24th floor

New York, NY 10017

USA

Amnesty International, International Secretariat, Peter Benenson House, 1 Easton Street, London WC1X 0DW, United Kingdom.

www.amnesty.org

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