The International Criminal Court has opened war crimes hearings against Joseph Kony, a brutal Ugandan rebel chief whose Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) was responsible for murdering and kidnapping tens of thousands of people. Kony was the first suspected war criminal indicted by the ICC in 2005 and the hearing itself is the first ever held in absentia at the court, after decades of fruitless efforts to find him. He faces 39 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity, including murder, rape, t