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Thursday November 12, 2009
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Associated Press reports that the mother of one of Africa’s most notorious rebel leaders relayed one last wish for her son before her death Wednesday, according to a nurse at her deathbed: Make peace.
Norah Anek, 86, the mother of Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony, died after a long illness, said nurse Betty Akello, who was with her when she died. Her son heads the infamous Lord’s Resistance Army, which has waged one of Africa’s longest and most brutal rebellions, in northern Uganda.
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Wednesday September 30, 2009
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Marauding bands of guerrillas have crucified seven Christians during a series of raids on villages in Sudan.
One of the men was tied to a tree and mutilated while six other victims were nailed to pieces of wood fastened to the ground and killed.
Villagers who found their bodies near the town of Nzara said it was like a “grotesque crucifixion scene”.
Bishop Eduardo Hiiboro Kussala of Tombura-Yambio has now appealed for international help to stop the attacks by members of the Lord’s Resistance Army.
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Wednesday September 16, 2009
Islam • Lord's Resistance Army • Religious Persecution:
Sudanese Christians have urged fellow believers around the world to pray for them as armed groups are kidnapping and killing church leaders and other Christians, an advocacy group with close knowledge about the situation told BosNewsLife Tuesday.
Christians, who comprise just about 18 percent of Sudan’s mainly Muslim population of nearly 39 million people, are increasingly in the crossfire as many of them abandoned Islam, rights groups say.
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Monday December 29, 2008
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The Ugandan army on Sunday accused Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels of hacking to death 45 people in a church in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
“They were cut with pangas (machetes) and hit with clubs but some luckily managed to escape. Our forces came to know about the killings while pursuing the LRA yesterday and the pursuit is on for the killers.”
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Tuesday December 16, 2008
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Congo’s national army joined Ugandan forces and southern Sudanese militia in a military operation Sunday meant to root out pockets of the Lord’s Resistance Army — which had been preparing to launch an assault on Uganda from camps in eastern Congo, a joint statement from the three said.The Lord’s Resistance Army — led by Joseph Kony, who claims spiritual powers — sought to overthrow its government, demanding the constitution be replaced with a version of the Ten Commandments.
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Wednesday June 25, 2008
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After two years of relative quiet, and as peace talks with Uganda continued in Juba, South Sudan, the cult-like LRA again went on the rampage with a campaign of looting, abduction and killing.
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Monday February 25, 2008
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The Lord’s Resistance Army, which the U.S. State Department describes as “vicious and cult-like,” has been known for its unpredictable behavior. [video]
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Sunday November 25, 2007
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The second in command of Uganda’s notorious Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) guerrillas was killed by firing squad on October 2nd “together with many others,” on orders of the elusive rebel leader Joseph Kony, a government newspaper reported on Thursday.
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Thursday November 8, 2007
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The LRA built a reputation for mutilating their victims and kidnapping thousands of children to serve as fighters, porters and sex slaves.
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Wednesday October 24, 2007
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His comments come as the UN says a senior northern Ugandan rebel commander has surrendered to authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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LRA leaders, whose brutal 20-year war in northern Uganda killed tens of thousands of people and displaced 2 million more, signed a truce with Uganda last year but have refused to quit their jungle hideouts in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Sunday September 30, 2007
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She was abducted by the rebels in 2003 when she was only 11 years old. She was a brave and fearless soldier who killed many. After five years in captivity, she decided to escape. She told Gladys Kalibbala her life in the bush and how it has affected her.
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Wednesday August 29, 2007
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Uganda said Wednesday that it will enact a law that would protect the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) guerillas from trial by the International Criminal Court (ICC) which indicted the leaders of the brutal rebel group for war crimes two years ago.
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Monday March 26, 2007
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She prayed for a safe journey as the bus set off for, as a girl born and raised in northern Uganda, Akello was aware of the dangers of travelling along this route. The threat comes from the attacks by Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army. Kony’s men do not always attack, but when they do, the result is always nasty. They loot, they kidnap, they kill.
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Thursday February 1, 2007
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Alice Auma Lakwena, Uganda’s self proclaimed prophetess and leader of the defunct Holy Spirit Movement passed away last week at Ifo refuge camp in Kenya, after twenty years in exile.
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Wednesday January 24, 2007
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Some 10,000 children are still missing in Uganda with as many as 1500 held captive by rebels engaged in stalled peace talks to end a two-decade war in the country’s shattered north, an aid agency said.
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Thursday January 18, 2007
Holy Spirit Movement • Lord's Resistance Army:
The woman who began the long running insurgency in northern Uganda, Alice Lakwena, has died in exile in Kenya after a long illness.
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Monday November 13, 2006
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Uganda’s faltering peace process received a boost yesterday when one of Africa’s most fearsome rebel commanders sat down with United Nations officials in a clearing deep in the southern Sudanese jungle.
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Thursday October 19, 2006
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An independent monitoring team set off on Tuesday to investigate Ugandan rebel claims they were attacked by Ugandan troops in southern Sudan, breaking a fragile truce aimed at ending one of Africa’s longest conflicts. Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) guerrillas accused the military on Monday of ambushing their fighters at Birinyang, southeast of southern Sudan’s capital Juba, risking a restart of a 20-year war that killed tens of thousands and uprooted 1.7 million more.
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Friday September 29, 2006
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A bitter drink known as mato oput by the Acholi people of northern Ugandan may have the ingredients for peace between the Ugandan government and the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). Mato oput is the ritual climax of an Acholi justice process for bringing reconciliation in the wake of a homicide within the community.
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Monday September 25, 2006
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Martin Acaye was a soldier in Uganda’s fearsome rebel group, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), for seven years. Abducted during an ambush and forced to join the country’s 20-year civil war, he entered villages and stole food at gunpoint every day. And every day he prayed that he would one day be reunited with his wife and children. But now that he is home, Mr Acaye, 33, is ready to forgive the men who took him away from his family. Like so many people in the Acholi region of northern Uganda who have suffered at the hands of the LRA, Mr Acaye wants the group’s leader, Joseph Kony, and his estimated 6,000 fighters, to go home.
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Sunday September 10, 2006
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Ugandan rebel group, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) has threatened to derail the on-going peace talks with the government. It said that peace talks would not hold if the International Criminal Court (ICC) refuse to revoke the indictment against the rebel leadership.
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Saturday August 26, 2006
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JUBA, Sudan, Aug 26 (Reuters) - Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels agreed on Saturday to leave their hideouts and assemble at two south Sudanese camps in a major breakthrough in efforts to end one of Africa's longest wars, mediators said.
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Saturday August 5, 2006
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KAMPALA (Reuters) - Uganda's Lord Resistance Army declared a ceasefire on Friday and called on the government to lay down its arms ahead of peace talks due to resume in south Sudan next week.
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Wednesday August 2, 2006
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Nabanga, Sudan-Congo border - The leader of Uganda's notorious Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), Joseph Kony, used his first news conference in 20 years of rebellion on Tuesday to call for a ceasefire with the government.
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