ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with active International Criminal Court (ICC) involvement. The ICC moved up the trajectory of involvement before the Juba Peace Talks commenced. The ICC's involvement in Uganda is assumed to derive from the government's referral of the northern situation to the ICC. The Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) reacted to the new alliance between the government and the ICC, attacking Abia camp for internally displaced persons (IDP) in Lira district and killing 52 people. Within a week of the unsealing of the arrest warrants, the Uganda People's Defence Forces pursued the LRA in Southern Sudan. The Amnesty Act had been inconsistent with Uganda's obligations to the Rome Statute since the latter was ratified in 2003. The Pre-Negotiation phase of the Juba process was preceded by dramatic changes in the LRA's political, military and strategic environment and in the government's interest in a peaceful South Sudan. The international community was initially ambivalent about the Juba negotiations.
