Villages torched, young girls forced into sexual slavery, women abandoning babies to flee for their lives: the International Criminal Court Tuesday heard harrowing stories of atrocities allegedly committed by Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda.

The fugitive warlord faces 39 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity, including murder, rape, torture, enslavement, and sexual slavery, allegedly committed between July 2002 and December 2005 in northern Uganda.

Opening the hearing -- the first-ever held in absentia at the ICC, since Kony has been on the run for two decades -- Sarah Pellet, a lawyer representing victims, laid out the horrors Ugandan civilians suffered.

The victims "had no choice when they were forced to watch killings. They had no choice when they were made

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