The Poverty Status Report, , indicates that "one third of the chronically poor The LRA's ideology is disputed among academics. Robert Gersony , in a report funded by United States Embassy in Kampala in , concluded that "the LRA has no political program or ideology, at least none that the local population has heard or can understand. IRIN comments that "the LRA remains one of the least understood rebel movements in the world, and its ideology, as far as it has one, is difficult to understand.
God is the one helping us in the bush. And people always ask us, are we fighting for the Ten Commandments of God. The Ten Commandments carries all this. In a speech delivered by James Alfred Obita , former secretary for external affairs and mobilisation of the Lord's Resistance Army, he adamantly denied that the LRA was "just an Acholi thing" and stated that claims made by the media and Museveni administration asserting that the LRA is a "group of Christian fundamentalists with bizarre beliefs whose aim is to topple the Museveni regime and replace it with governance based on the Bible 's ten commandments" were false.
The original aims of the group were more closely aligned with those of its predecessor, the Holy Spirit Movement. Protection of the Acholi population was of great concern because of the reality of ethnic purges in the history of Uganda. In , the government of Uganda claimed that the LRA had only or 1, soldiers in total, but other sources estimated that there could have been as many as 3, soldiers, along with about 1, women and children. Since the LRA first started fighting in the s they may have forced well over 10, boys and girls into combat, often killing family, neighbors and school teachers in the process.
The LRA have often used children to fight because they are easy to replace by raiding schools or villages.
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The four LRA leaders were charged with crimes against humanity and war crimes, including murder, rape, and sexual slavery. Ongwen was the only of the four not charged with recruiting child soldiers. The warrants were filed under seal; public redacted versions were released on 13 October These were the first warrants issued by the ICC since it was established in Details of the warrants were sent to the three countries where the LRA is active: The LRA leadership has long stated that they would never surrender unless they were granted immunity from prosecution; so the ICC order to arrest them raised concerns that the insurgency would not have a negotiated end.
The indictments received warm praise within the international community. However, the Acholi people showed mixed reactions. Many felt that amnesty for the LRA soldiers and a negotiated settlement was the best hope for the end of the war.
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In the end, the court's intent to prosecute the leaders of the LRA reduced the army's willingness to cooperate in peace negotiations. The government expressed skepticism regarding the overture but stated their openness to peaceful resolution of the conflict. On 2 June , Interpol issued five wanted person red notices to countries on behalf of the ICC, which has no police of its own.
At least two of the five wanted LRA leaders have since been killed: Lukwiya in August [89] and Otti in late executed by Kony.
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In January , Dominic Ongwen was reported either to have defected or to have been captured and was held by the Ugandan forces. In late , Ugandan forces, alerted by U. In November , U. Bush personally signed a directive to the United States Africa Command to provide assistance financially and logistically to the Ugandan government during the unsuccessful Garamba Offensive, code-named Operation Lightning Thunder.
One hundred children were rescued. In May , U. The bill passed unanimously in the Senate on 11 March , with 65 senators as cosponsors, then passed unanimously in the House of Representatives on 13 May , with representatives as cosponsors. On 24 November , Obama delivered a strategy document to the U.
Congress , asking for money to disarm Kony and the LRA. On 14 October , Obama announced that he had ordered the deployment of U. The military advisors will be armed, and will provide assistance and advice, but "will not themselves engage LRA forces unless necessary for self-defense.
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The goal of the project was to co-ordinate efforts against the group by the ongoing operations conducted by the states of Uganda, South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Central African Republic. However, some fear that these armies are looting resources in the region. The civilians have reported rapes , killings and lootings by the Ugandan army. We need support in terms of means of transport, communication, medicine, combat rations and uniforms for the troops tracking the LRA. This is particularly important and critical and most urgent for the central African troops who handed over their contingent despite the challenges facing them.
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About Browse this Collection. Analysts say Kony and the LRA are a shadow of the threat they were 10 or even 20 years ago, when they could deploy thousands of fighters and terrorised wide areas of central Africa.
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Pamela Faber at the Center for Naval Analyses in Washington said the group, which is much diminished by defections, internal purges and battle casualties, was a vestige of its former self. Many, however, say the LRA — known for atrocious brutality against civilians including mass abductions and rapes, executions and torture — can still cause serious harm.
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Norbert Mao, an opposition politician and former chairman of Gulu district in northern Uganda, where the group emerged in the s, said the withdrawal of troops gave it a chance to regroup. Kony is now unlikely to appear before the ICC, but the trial of Dominic Ongwen , one of his key lieutenants, started earlier this year. The group has been blamed for the deaths of about , people and the abduction of 60, children. It relied on the abduction of largely defenceless villagers and refugees, including children, to provide labour and combatants.
Girls were forced into sexual and domestic slavery while boys were forced to take up arms. Ongwen himself was abducted by the LRA when still a teenager.
Most of the charges against Ongwen focus on attacks on refugee camps between and One of the worst involved a four-day raid on camps in north-eastern DRC in December , in which about civilians were killed and another , including at least 80 children, were abducted. Brenda Atim, 28, a resident of Limu village in Gulu district of northern Uganda, which suffered heavily from LRA attacks for many years, said victims of the rebels may not now get justice.