LRA leader Joseph Kony 'in surrender talks' with CAR

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: BBC

The government of the Central African Republic (CAR) has said it is in talks with Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony with the aim of his surrender.

A CAR government spokesman told the BBC that Kony was in the country but wanted his security to be guaranteed before giving himself up.
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Also on Wednesday, the African Union's special envoy on the LRA, Francisco Madeira, told the UN Security Council he had seen reports that Kony was suffering from a "serious, uncharacterized illness".

In April the Ugandan army suspended a search for Kony in the CAR, blaming "hostility" from the government formed when rebel forces took power there.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-25027616

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1. K&R

Well, this is greast news, but way too late. He's afraid of "hostility" from the government??? Oh, he can't imagine the hostility that people, not only in his government, but all over the world feel for him. But until they get him in their hands, promise him the moon.

[Alamuti Lotus]

3. Kony wasn't afraid of hostility, that was between the Ugandan regime and CAR rebel gov't

which impeded the already-faint attempts to hunt down his merry band of Bible-thumpers (quite a literal term, in their case).

Slightly bemused at the inflated revulsion that Kony's forces almost singularly engenders, when the same results are mirrored--nay, writ large--by the more US-friendly regimes of Kagame and Musaveni in their respective warlording/war-profiteering activities around Congo and Somalia. I realize that effective marketing techniques can transform A into not-A when it benefits the correct parties, and this cognitive dissonance extends to almost anything of substance, but ... nevermind, this is something for a sunnier day.

[Posteritatis]

2. Pretty much anything that gets him off the field is worth it. (nt)

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. Joseph Kony: US doubts LRA rebel leader's surrender

US officials have cast doubt on reports that Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony is negotiating his surrender in the Central African Republic.

CAR's president has said Kony, who is wanted for alleged war crimes by the International Criminal Court, has been in talks with his government.

A US State Department official told the BBC that some rebels had been in contact but Kony was not among them.
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The US official also noted that Kony had previously used "any and every pretext to rest, regroup, and rearm, ultimately returning to kidnapping, killing, displacing and otherwise abusing civilian populations".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-25036874