Can the Geneva Convention be used to try LRA rebels?
Uganda should adopt the ICC Bill and include provisions for retroactive application for acts or omissions which constitute criminal offence under international, conventional or customary law. The temporal jurisdiction of the ICC Act should also include all criminal actions between 1989 and 1995 before the Uganda Human Rights Commission was established. These remarks were by made by APILU chairperson’s, Mr. Moses Adriko, during a workshop to discuss the applicability of the Geneva Convention and the Rome statute in national trials of the principal commanders of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). In December, 2003, the Government of Uganda referred the situation of Northern Uganda to the International Criminal Court and in July 2005 five arrest warrants were issued against five LRA Commanders Joseph Kony, Vincent Otti, Raska Lukwiya, Okot Odhiambo and Domnic Ongwen. The Geneva Conventions criminalize war crimes as grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions. Criminalized acts include willful
