{"id":12567,"date":"2014-02-16T08:13:19","date_gmt":"2014-02-16T08:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/wanted-lra-commander-might-be-dead\/"},"modified":"2014-02-24T03:17:24","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T03:17:24","slug":"wanted-lra-commander-might-be-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wanted-lra-commander-might-be-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Wanted LRA Commander May be Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-4225 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/okoto.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>{{The wanted deputy of Uganda&#8217;s murderous Lord&#8217;s Resistance Army rebels, Okot Odhiambo (pictured above), may have been killed in recent fighting, the Ugandan defence minister told media on Friday.}}<\/p>\n<p>Odhiambo was indicted by the Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC) in 2005 along with LRA chief Joseph Kony and fellow rebel Dominic Ongwen on charges of butchering and kidnapping civilians.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are pointers from defectors that Okot Odhiambo may be dead,&#8221; Defence Minister Crispus Kiyonga told reporters Friday. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our forces are verifying these reports to check if indeed he died in the battles we have had with them and a position will be communicated,&#8221; Kiyonga  said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the ICC warrant, former LRA members describe Odhiambo as a &#8220;ruthless killer&#8221; and &#8220;the one who killed the most&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Odhiambo is widely suspected to have directed the killing of some 300 civilians during a February 2004 attack on the Barlonyo internally displaced persons camp in northern Uganda, one of the single largest massacres in the LRA&#8217;s brutal history.<\/p>\n<p>After Odhiambo reportedly ordered the rebels to &#8220;kill every living thing&#8221;, witnesses say camp residents were burnt alive in their homes, hacked to death with machetes, stabbed, bludgeoned and shot as they tried to escape.<\/p>\n<p>NV<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{The wanted deputy of Uganda&#8217;s murderous Lord&#8217;s Resistance Army rebels, Okot Odhiambo (pictured above), may have been killed in recent fighting, the Ugandan defence minister told media on Friday.}} Odhiambo was indicted by the Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC) in 2005 along with LRA chief Joseph Kony and fellow rebel Dominic Ongwen on charges of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2000050376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[99],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-12567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-greatlakesnews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000050376,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton12567.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton12567.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton12567.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton12567.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton12567.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton12567.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000050376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12567"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=12567"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=12567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}