Okot Odhiambo was a senior leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, a Ugandan militant group which operates from Garamba National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
12 Facts About Okot Odhiambo
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Okot Odhiambo was reported to be the LRA's Deputy Army Commander and a member of the "Control Altar", the core leadership group responsible for devising and implementing LRA strategy.
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Okot Odhiambo is believed to have become deputy leader of the LRA following the death of Vincent Otti in October 2007.
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On 8 July 2005, Okot Odhiambo was one of five LRA commanders for whom the ICC issued its first ever arrest warrants.
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The court ruled that there were reasonable grounds to believe that Okot Odhiambo had ordered the commission of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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The prosecution alleges that Okot Odhiambo led a number of massacres and commanded attacks against two internally displaced person camps in 2004, during which more than 300 people were burnt, shot and hacked to death and children were abducted.
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Okot Odhiambo was charged with two counts of crimes against humanity and eight counts of war crimes in connection with the two attacks.
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However, on 29 January 2009, Okot Odhiambo said he had suffered a serious gunshot wound during a clash with Ugandan forces and was defecting from the LRA.
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An LRA spokesman dismissed the reports of Okot Odhiambo's planned defection, claiming the story was invented by the Ugandan army "to create disharmony and danger to LRA fighters".
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In February 2014, it was reported that Okot Odhiambo had been killed 27 October 2013.
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Okot Odhiambo's body was found based on GPS coordinates provided by the man who buried him after his death and afterward defected to UPDF forces.
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Okot Odhiambo's body was exhumed on 20 March 2015, and flown to Entebbe, Uganda for identity confirmation.