[1][2] The Lord's Resistance Army is a Christian-based group led by Joseph Kony that is accused of numerous human rights violations and war crimes including massacres, the abduction of civilians, the use of child soldiers, sexual enslavement, torture, and pillaging.

[3] After the government of Uganda referred the matter to the ICC in December 2003, warrants of arrest were issued in 2005 for Joseph Kony, Raska Lukwiya, Okot Odhiambo, Dominic Ongwen, and Vincent Otti, who became the first people to be indicted by the Court.

[5] The Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) is a Christian-based rebel group that has been active in Uganda and neighbouring countries since 1987.

[2] The LRA is led by Joseph Kony, a former faith healer who founded the group on the theology of Alice Auma's failed Holy Spirit Movement.

[9] The referral was communicated via a letter sent by President Yoweri Museveni to the Prosecutor of the ICC, Luis Moreno Ocampo.

[10] On 5 July 2004 the situation was assigned to Pre-Trial Chamber II by ICC President Philippe Kirsch.

[21][22] In 2009 Odhiambo told Agence France-Presse that he had defected from the LRA, but would only surrender if there were a guarantee that he would not be turned over to the Court.

[25][26] Lukwiya's case was joined with other defendants' pending confirmation of his death 12 August 2006 in a battle with the Ugandan military.