Johnson Natuhwera, a Senior State Attorney who represented the Attorney General however told the court that the primary responsibility for compensating the victims lies with the convict who committed the crimes but not the government.
According to Hatanga, the court is expected to pronounce itself on reparations after the sentencing since the case has been about the victims and accountability.
Alaka says whereas there are categories of victims and witnesses who deserve protection while testifying in court, witness PW50 didn’t fall among them arguing he served as a former intelligence officer in the national army.
Kwoyelo is charged with 93 counts of charges of war crimes and crimes against Humanity he allegedly committed between 1993 and 2005 in Pabbo in Amuru District, Northern Uganda.
His lawyer Evans Ochieng, told the court on Monday that the suspect wants to serve his remand near home to enable his family members to have ease in visiting him.
Speaking through his defense lawyers on Monday, Kwoyelo alleged that some of the correspondents presented in court recently are new and could be fabricated with the intent to add more evidence to pin him.
During the cross-examination conducted by Kwoyelo’s Lawyer Evans Ochieng, the victim revealed she was abducted from Pagak IDP camp where she resided after armed rebels overran the camp at about 4 pm.
The witness added that he nearly killed Kwoyelo because when he told him to wake up and surrender himself, Kwoyelo started touching around himself in what the witness had thought that he was looking for a gun to shoot at him. But Kwoyelo was reportedly not armed and he was trying to hold his stomach which had an injury.
