ICC to hear charges against fugitive Ugandan rebel chief Joseph Kony

The International Criminal Court on Tuesday opened war crimes hearings in absentia against elusive Ugandian warlord Joseph Kony, whose Lord’s Resistance Army was responsible for the murder of some 100,000 people and the abduction of 60,000 children. Kony’s last-known appearance was in 2006 when he told a journalist he was “not a terrorist”.