By Toliit Ivan
Gulu High Court Circuit has suspended all normal court sessions for tomorrow (Tuesday) as the International Crimes Division (ICD) of the High Court sitting at the Gulu High Court is expected to deliver its verdict on the case in which the former Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebel commander Thomas Kwoyelo alias Latonhe is accused of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Kwoyelo is facing 78 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity allegedly committed between 1993 and 2005 in Kilak county, now Amuru District.
The verdict will be delivered at the Gulu High Court circuit in the Northern Uganda City of Gulu by a trial panel of judges consisting of Justices Michael Elubu, Duncan Gaswaga, Stephen Mubiru, and Andrew Bashaija.
It comes more than a decade after Kwoyelo was captured on March 3, 2009, by the Uganda People’s Defence Forces soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
George Obong, the Deputy Registrar Gulu High Court, said all the normal court sessions have been suspended for tomorrow (Tuesday), asking prisons authority and litigants that new dates for their cases will be fixed on Wednesday.
Kwoyelo whose trial commenced in September 2018 has been in custody at Luzira Maximum Prison since 2009 after being captured by the Ugandan Army in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in March same year.
Since 2018 when Kwoyelo’s trial commenced, the prosecution presented a total of 53 witnesses to pin Kwoyelo against the charges. Equally, Kwoyelo presented four witnesses in defense in May this year and denied any wrongdoing.
