This article explores the challenges associated with recognizing children born of war as victims within the framework of international criminal law. Focusing on the case of Dominic Ongwen, a former child soldier and senior commander of the Lord’s Resistance Army (lra), it analyses how the criteria established in the definition of victim in the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the International Criminal Court have been applied to children born of war. This analysis brings to the fore conceptual challenges to the recognition of children born of war as victims and highlights the risks that the binary victim-perpetrator that characterises the international criminal narrative presents to a comprehensive understanding of the experiences and needs of these children.

本文探讨了在国际刑法框架内将战争出生的儿童视为受害者所面临的挑战。重点关注前儿童兵、上帝抵抗军高级指挥官多米尼克·翁文（Dominic Ongwen ）的案件，分析了《国际刑事法院程序和证据规则》受害者定义中确立的标准的适用情况献给战争中出生的孩子。这一分析凸显了将战争出生的儿童视为受害者的概念挑战，并强调了国际犯罪叙事中受害者与犯罪者二元对全面了解这些儿童的经历和需求带来的风险。