The Supreme Court is preparing to rule on whether former LRA commander, Col. Thomas Kwoyelo deserves to be granted amnesty.

The moment the court doesn’t give him amnesty it will mean that Col. Thomas Kwoyelo will be tried for war crimes and crimes against humanity before Uganda’s War Crimes Court.

Sections of human rights activists argue that Kweyelo deserves to be given amnesty. However the Attorney General argues that Kweyelo should not be given amnesty because thousands of people died under his commander.

But the Constitutional   Court also recently ruled that Col Kwoyelo deserved to be pardoned like all other rebel combatants in Uganda.

The Senior Principal State Attorney, Patricia Mutesi, and the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Joan Kagezi also argue that Kweyelo should not have exonerated from being prosecuted for committing war crimes and crimes against humanity when he was still one of the LRA commanders.

However, Caleb Alaka, Nicolas Opio and John Francis Onyango, the lawyers who represent Kwoyelo, all support him to be given amnesty. The lawyers also want all other LRA rebel commanders still at large to be given amnesty including LRA leader, Joseph Kony.

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