Uganda’s Case of Thomas Kwoyelo: Customary International Law on Trial

From 1987 to 2008, an armed conflict seized Northern Uganda, as the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) challenged the Ugandan government in a contest that resulted in more than 100,000 dead and over 1.9 million people displaced. Since then, both the Ugandan government and the international community have invested significant effort in apprehending LRA leaders for prosecution…