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UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for five members of Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army, the first warrants issued by the court, the top U.N. envoy for Congo said Thursday.
The International Criminal Court, the world's first permanent war crimes tribunal, was founded in 2002 and had said for some time it was investigating the Lord's Resistance Army, and hoped to present a case to the court's judges by the end of the year.
"It is true, I can't give you details because I don't know how much the ICC has put on the public record," William Lacy Swing, who is Secretary-General Kofi Annan's special representative for Congo, told a news conference. "I know they've issued arrest warrants for five people and these notifications went out last week."
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