The Lord's Resistance Army's new reign of terror

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/the-lords-resistance-armys-new-reign-of-terror-2051298.html

By Daniel Howden, Africa Correspondent

Friday, 13 August 2010

One of Africa's most feared militias, the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), has carried out a campaign of mass abductions on both sides of the remote border between the Central African Republic (CAR) and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), according to a human rights monitor.

Dozens of villages have been attacked, looted and burned, a report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) revealed, while villagers have been tortured, their skulls crushed with clubs. Survivors have been tied up and marched into the jungle in human chains to serve as sex slaves, porters or fighters for the group. One-third of the nearly 700 civilians taken were reportedly children.

"The LRA continues its horrific campaign to replenish its ranks by brutally tearing children from their villages and forcing them to fight," said Anneke Van Woudenberg of the New York-based watchdog. "The evidence points to Joseph Kony, the LRA leader, as the author of this atrocious campaign." snip

The self-styled "prophet" Joseph Kony is an elusive and terrifying figure. Born in 1961, he inherited his mantle as leader of the Acholi people from his aunt, a mystic who started a rebellion in Uganda. Although it initially enjoyed popular backing, the rebel LRA long ago lost support after a brutal and incoherent campaign to "purify" the Acholi and turn Uganda into a theocracy ruled by the Ten Commandments.

[derby378]

1. Let me guess - strict gun laws in both nations?

Regardless, I hope someone musters enough muscle to send the entire LRA back to Hell from whence it came.

[old mark]

2. Rec. How very christian! I bet some of our American "religious" are envious and planning

their own purification war...


mark

[crim son]

3. That's a pretty safe bet.

I've seen videos of Christofascists making exactly that claim.

[burnsei sensei]

4. This reminds me much of how children

and young people were snatched by slave-catchers and brought to the coast for the slave trade.
Africans betraying Africans again in the name of ethnicity and religion.
Soldiering and slavery have too much in common.

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. Keep your eye on this story.

It is getting plenty of MSM attention, and we DO have the new "Africa Com" created by the DOD a couple of years ago.
Methinks there might be a push for some military presence to "protect" areas from whatever name they give to the bad people.

In case I need to point to this out, I am not condoning what the LRA is doing or the need for LRA's victims to get help.

[14thColony]

6. The US military has been supporting the Ugandans against the LRA

since before AFRICOM even existed. If there was a desire to use this as an inroad it could have been done years ago.

[mrarundale]

7. too bad all the "humanitarian" organizations seem to be

connected to the World Bank......