its notorious leader Joseph Kony
The Lord’s Resistance Army is a rebel group led by leader Joseph Kony. The group originated in Northern Uganda as a movement to fight for the rights of the Acholi people. The group has been fighting the Ugandan army for years and has been driven out of Uganda and is now scattered across Congo, Central African Republic and Southern Sudan, where it conducts brutal attacks on villages.
It came to life as the Holy Spirit Movement in the early 1980s by a woman called Alice Lakwena who claimed that the Holy Spirit had ordered her to overthrow the Ugandan govt because of the atrocities it commits against the Acholi people. The Acholi’s live in Northern Uganda.
A large number of Acholi people flocked to Alice Lakwena, they had a lot of grudge against the Ugandan govt, the Holy Spirit Movement gathered momentum however a battle fought between the movement and the Ugandan army resulted in its defeat and exile of Alice Lakwena from Uganda.
Thus in this time of turmoil for the movement, a man named Joseph Kony, claiming to be the cousin of Alice Lakwena took over as leader of the movement and renamed it as the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA).
LRA had the aim of overthrowing the Ugandan govt and establishing its own rule based on the Biblical Ten Commandments.
The LRA under Kony’s command has been accused of abducting children and turning them into vicious child soldiers. Most of these children are abducted from various villages, those who do not cooperate with LRA has either killed or mutilated. The able bodied children are taken away and used as soldiers, weapons carriers, cooks, porters and even sex slaves.
Numerous attempts have been launched to reach a peace agreement with the LRA, but Kony has thwarted such attempts, however the Ugandan Army claims that it has weakened the LRA significantly. However the LRA has spread its tentacles to Congo where the MONUSCO is under-staffed and has had problems to contain it.
The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants against Joseph Kony and his men but he has not been arrested till now.
Moreover 100 US Special Forces operatives are aiding and advising the armies of 4 African nations which are pursuing the LRA.
The Lord’s Resistance Army is a rebel group led by leader Joseph Kony. The group originated in Northern Uganda as a movement to fight for the rights of the Acholi people. The group has been fighting the Ugandan army for years and has been driven out of Uganda and is now scattered across Congo, Central African Republic and Southern Sudan, where it conducts brutal attacks on villages.
It came to life as the Holy Spirit Movement in the early 1980s by a woman called Alice Lakwena who claimed that the Holy Spirit had ordered her to overthrow the Ugandan govt because of the atrocities it commits against the Acholi people. The Acholi’s live in Northern Uganda.
A large number of Acholi people flocked to Alice Lakwena, they had a lot of grudge against the Ugandan govt, the Holy Spirit Movement gathered momentum however a battle fought between the movement and the Ugandan army resulted in its defeat and exile of Alice Lakwena from Uganda.
Thus in this time of turmoil for the movement, a man named Joseph Kony, claiming to be the cousin of Alice Lakwena took over as leader of the movement and renamed it as the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA).
LRA had the aim of overthrowing the Ugandan govt and establishing its own rule based on the Biblical Ten Commandments.
The LRA under Kony’s command has been accused of abducting children and turning them into vicious child soldiers. Most of these children are abducted from various villages, those who do not cooperate with LRA has either killed or mutilated. The able bodied children are taken away and used as soldiers, weapons carriers, cooks, porters and even sex slaves.
Numerous attempts have been launched to reach a peace agreement with the LRA, but Kony has thwarted such attempts, however the Ugandan Army claims that it has weakened the LRA significantly. However the LRA has spread its tentacles to Congo where the MONUSCO is under-staffed and has had problems to contain it.
The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants against Joseph Kony and his men but he has not been arrested till now.
Moreover 100 US Special Forces operatives are aiding and advising the armies of 4 African nations which are pursuing the LRA.
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