On July 17, World Day for International Justice, the International Criminal Court (ICC) in partnership with the Danish government has launched a project that will enable victims of the Lords Resistance Army atrocities in Northern Uganda to constantly follow proceedings at The Hague (70 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity).

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WIDE delegates
MID ICC and Denmark banners
Wide of Maria Mabinty Kamara Outreach Officer for Kenya and Uganda ICC
CLOSE ICC registrar Herman Von Hebel
MID delegates (3 shots)
WIDE journalists with cameras
CUTS journalists listening (3shots)
MID delegates listening
WIDE a journalist asking a the officials
WIDE delegates being issued documents to sign
MID delegates signing the documents (2shots)
CUTS video journalists recording the proceedings
MID the Danish ambassador and ICC registrar shaking and exchanging the documents
WIDE the Press conference
SOUNDBITE 1: Arch Bishop Baptist Osama
“We are grateful to you, register. For having come to make this signing in our own land here. I think it will be a very important sign of our commitment also as a nation. To put this process of ICC as an important part of the growth and rehabilitation of our society as a whole. ”

SOUNDBITE 2: ICC Registrar, Herman Von Hebel
“Court proceedings are in the Hague. Its far away but through all those activities that we can do here, in particular in Gulu and surrounding, we bring justice as closer as possible to the victims. That’s the crucial activity that we gonna undertake”

SOUNDBITE 3: Danish Ambassador Mogens Pedersen
“Fundamental idea of this project is to enhance outreach of the ICC, what does it mean? it does mean that the truth is coming forward. That reconciliation has a very important place for the people in Northern Uganda that is what we are doing. We bringing it closer to the trial in the Hague”


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CUTS Residents at the viewing point following the Ongwen Trial (9shots)
WALK IN Retired Bishop of Northern Uganda, Onono Onweng
SOUNDBITE 4: Retired Bishop of Northern Uganda, Onono Onweng
“Because, when they look at the process going on in the Hague there, people look at, I think they feel as if they’re the ones trying, Dominic Ongwen. They feel satisfied. You see the main thing is to do with Satisfaction, are the people happy? Are they satisfied with the process? And when I look back at the screen, of screening the court in the community. People were satisfied and they were happy. And that’s key in any given process”

WIDE women seated in a compound (2 shots)
SOUNDBITE 5: Flora Aling, Programme Coordinator Northern Uganda
“This trial has generated a lot of interest amongst the people. And as civil society it has created for us a platform. From time to time we’re invited and updated on a number of things happening already. Now this gives us more confidence as civil society once we go the community to also inform them on what is happening. Each time the screenings were done, we as civil society take part. And in those moments we also interface with the beneficiaries and also to get their views. And that was, I would call it away through which we would also try to clarify a number of questions that may arise amongst the beneficiaries”
CUTS women seated in compound (2 shots)
WIDE viewing point in northern Uganda (7shots)