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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - The International Criminal Court has issued its first arrest warrants, calling on three African nations to help capture five Ugandan rebels it said were responsible for killing thousands of civilians and enslaving thousands of children.
Judges issued the warrants on July 8 and sent them to the government in Kampala, but they were kept secret until Friday to protect witnesses and victims.
The warrants capped a nine-month investigation of more than 2,200 killings and 3,200 abductions in 850 separate attacks by the Lord's Resistance Army between July 2002 and June 2004, chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said.
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