The International Criminal Court, or ICC, is known as the Court of Last Resort.

It only intervenes when national courts can't or won't prosecute crimes like genocide and crimes against humanity.

This year, the Trump administration sanctioned several members of the court, saying it targets the United States and Israel.

And now Americans try to prosecute some of the world's it targets the United States and Israel. And now Americans

trying to prosecute some of the world's worst crimes at the ICC are discovering that those

sanctions are preventing them from doing that. Special correspondent Kiriqa has the story.

In the city of Gulu in northern Uganda, residents gathered in September to witness a scene 20 years in the making.

Criminal charges presented against warlord Joseph Kony, accused of murdering and kidnapping thousands during his decades-long insurgency in the region. The impact of the Iraq on the

North of Uganda has been particularly grave.

The prosecutor is thousands of miles away

at the International Criminal Court in the Netherlands,

also known as the ICC. Kony himself is not in the courtroom.

He remains on the run, even despite a six-year mission by U.S. Special Forces to hunt him down.

The war was unbearable.

Finding your way between bullets and dead bodies. We walked on thorns until our legs were torn.

Nancy Akello was one of Connie's victims, abducted at age 12. Now she hopes Connie will turn himself in.

If our voices reach Connie where he is, he should listen humbly and return home.

That way the person defending him can work more easily on his behalf.

Joseph Coney's was the first ever in absentia hearing in ICC history,

as it tries to make sure the case doesn't stall indefinitely.

But the tribunal has faced criticism since it was created in 2002

of being slow and selective in its cases, so far only convicting Africans.

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