World Court rules for Congo against Uganda

THE International Court of Justice yesterday held Uganda responsible for the killing, torture and cruel treatment of civilians in Congo in the late 1990s and ordered reparations.

The court, the UN’s highest judicial body also known as the world court, dismissed Uganda’s claims of self-defence and called its actions an “unlawful military intervention” and interference in Congo’s internal affairs.

It also ruled that the Democratic Republic of Congo was obliged to compensate Uganda for the destruction of its embassy in Kinshasa and for the mistreatment of its diplomats.