A former commander of the Lord’s Resistance Army rebels was sentenced by a court in Uganda on Friday to 40 years in prison for brutal crimes committed by the group during its insurgency that started in the 1980s.

Thomas Kwoyelo was convicted of dozens of war crimes in August, the first time an officer of his seniority had been tried by Uganda's judiciary

Ex-rebel leader Thomas Kwoyelo was sentenced to 40 years for war crimes including multiple murders, rapes, pillaging, and enslavement.

Thomas Kwoyelo, the former commander in the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), has been sentenced to 40 years in prison after being convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity. The sentence was handed down by a four-judge panel of the International Crimes Division (ICD) of the High court, sitting at Gulu in northern Uganda.

Thomas Kwoyelo was found guilty of war crimes including rape and murder in August and has now received a 40 year prison term.A court in Uganda on Friday sentenced a former commander in the Lord's Resistance Army rebel group to 40 years in prison.

A Ugandan court on Friday sentenced a former Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) commander to 40 years in prison after a landmark war crimes trial over his role in the group's two-decade reign of terror.

Thomas Kwoyelo, who rose through the ranks of Kony's terror group after being abducted at the age of 12, has been sentenced to four decades behind bars, in the first case of its kind in the East African country.

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