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AFRICANEWSWIRE.NET (May, 17 2012)
Caesar seized
THE Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) gives Africans nightmares. The murderous band plays on fears of magic and demonic possession. It also humiliates African governments by showing up their failure to protect their own people. Since its emergence in the 1980s, the group has killed thousands of villagers and abducted tens of thousands more, including children. The atrocities resulted in arrest warrants for its commander, Joseph Kony, and four of his henchmen—two have since been killed—from the International Criminal Court (ICC). At the height of the LRA terror, nearly 2m Acholis, Mr Kony’s tribe, were driven from their homes in northern Uganda.Mr Kony himself fled from Uganda in 2005. He has been ghosting through parts of Congo, South Sudan and the Central African Republic ever since. Analysts think he now has fewer than 500 fighters. Peace talks between Uganda and his group have fallen apart and periodic manhunts have followed. Most are led by the Ugandan army, with the backing of its neighbours. Last year America sent some special forces.The Americans may have helped in the...
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