# International Criminal Court judges will hear the war crimes charges against fugitive Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony in September. For the first time in ICC history, the so-called “confirmation of charges” hearing on 9 September will be held in absentia, with Kony still on the run. He is suspected of 39 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity, allegedly committed between July 2002 and December 2005 in northern Uganda. Kony founded and led Uganda’s most brutal rebel group, the Lord’s Resistance Army, in the 1980s.
ICC will hear war crime charges against warlord Joseph Kony in September