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	Joseph Kony's Spirit War
		Kony had been tutored by his aunt, the Acholi Priestess, Lakwena, who herself had engaged in brutal kidnappings (forced conscriptions) into her Holy Spirit Army.[6] From the start, Joseph Kony exhibited a ruthlessness in war noted for an arrogant flaunting of the 1949 Geneva Convention.
		Joseph Kony's belief in "joks" is strong and because of his superstition the LRA has executed Ugandans, primarily women, believed to be in league with spirits.[13] Strangely, Mr.
		Kony with the holy advice to expand the Ten Commandments to Eleven Commandments--the Eleventh Commandment being "Thou shall not ride a bicycle." It is common practice for civilians in the Acholi heartland to be punished when caught riding a bicycle, the main form of transport in the remote rural areas of Uganda.
	www.infidels.org /library/modern/richard_petraitis/spirit_war.shtml (1845 words)

	Joseph Kony - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		LRA lieutenants have sporadically engaged in negotiations with the government since 2003, though Kony's negotiating position is ambiguous.
		On the next day Ugandan defense minister Amama Mbabazi revealed that the warrants include Joseph Kony, his deputy Vincent Otti, and LRA commanders Raska Lukwiya, Okot Odiambo and Dominic Ongwen.
		I want peace, but Museveni is the problem, says Kony, transcript of Joseph Kony's call in to a political talk show on the Mega FM radio station broadcasting from Gulu on 28 December 2002
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joseph_Kony (729 words)

	Uganda's Child Soldiers (Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army)
		Joseph Kony had this mantle of death and sadness passed on to him from his aunt, who now lives in a refugee camp in Kenya.
		This war is hellish in that the Joseph Kony’s army recruits its soldiers from the villages and schools of northern Uganda through abductions.
		Kony’s army is a rag tag group of children that believes in the mystical powers of their leader, children who run into the line of fire believing that the bullets can do no harm, and their weapons are often from the Sudanese military.
	kabiza.com /Lira-Children-Kony-Rebels.htm (1553 words)

	Lord's Resistance Army - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is led by Joseph Kony, who proclaims himself a spirit medium, and apparently wishes to establish a state based on his unique interpretation of Biblical millenarianism.
		In January 1987 Joseph Kony made his first appearance as a spirit medium, one of many who emerged after the initial success of the Holy Spirit Movement of Alice Auma.
		Joseph Kony gave his first interview to the press after 20 years of conflict.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lord's_Resistance_Army (3833 words)

	Ugandan rebel leader says innocent of war crimes - Boston.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony says in a rare interview that he is a freedom fighter, not a terrorist, and declares he is innocent of war crimes, a British newspaper reported on Wednesday.
		LONDON (Reuters) - Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony says in a rare interview that he is a freedom fighter, not a terrorist, and declares he is innocent of war crimes, a British newspaper reported on Wednesday.
		Kony, the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) who is wanted by the International Criminal Court, denies being responsible for killings, abductions and mutilations perpetrated in his name, The Times said.
	www.boston.com /news/world/africa/articles/2006/06/28/ugandan_rebel_leader_says_innocent_of_war_crimes (585 words)

	…My heart’s in Accra » Just how crazy is Joseph Kony? (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Joseph Kony, leader of the LRA, is one of the strangest rebel leaders to appear on the global stage.
		Kony’s brutality, eccentricity and reluctance to speak to the media - he (claims he) hasn’t given an interview in his long career - mean that his recent interview with journalist Sam Farvar at his camp in the Democratic Republic of Congo is big news indeed.
		Kony’s decision to break his silence might well be the precursor to hearing a great deal more for him, as a tightening net might force his arrest and prosecution at the ICC.
	www.ethanzuckerman.com /blog/?p=863 (1214 words)

	Rogues Gallery - Joseph Kony - International Justice - Global Policy Forum
		As a result, Joseph Kony, the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), is now officially one of the most-wanted criminals in the world.
		Museveni referred the case to the ICC in 2004 and passed an act in April 2006 denying Kony amnesty.
		Joseph Kony is the “perfect target” for the first ICC war crimes trial in The Hague, according to many experts.
	www.globalpolicy.org /intljustice/wanted/konyindex.htm (1051 words)

	Ugandan rebel leader denies atrocities, in rare interview
		Joseph Kony, pictured in May 2006, leader of Uganda's infamous Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), argued in a unique interview with The Times newspaper published 28 June that he was not a terrorist and again proposed peace talks with the Ugandan government.
		Joseph Kony, leader of Uganda's infamous Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), argued in a unique interview that he was not a terrorist and again proposed peace talks with the Ugandan government.
		Kony, who has styled himself as a prophet and mystic leading the rebellion, told The Times he was fighting for the 10 Commandments and was guided by spirits.
	www.turkishpress.com /news.asp?id=130814 (723 words)

	Uganda: Demystifying Kony (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Kony met western journalists, possibly for the first time ever, in the second week of June this year during talks with southern Sudanese vice-president Riek Machar in a clearing near Sudan's border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC, to discuss arrangements for peace negotiations with the Ugandan government.
		Now in his mid-forties, Kony was born in a village in the Odek area, some 50 kilometres east of the main northern Ugandan town of Gulu, into a typical family of peasant farmers from the north's Acholi tribe.
		Kony is often portrayed as fighting purely for his survival, but there is evidence that he has sought to express his Acholi people's grievances, despite the revulsion that his atrocities cause among these same people.
	www.iwpr.net /?p=acr&s=f&o=321863&apc_state=henh (1883 words)

	CNN.com - Reports: Leader of violent cult army wants to talk - Jun 28, 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Joseph Kony, founder and leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, was quoted as telling The Times and the BBC in articles published Wednesday that he was innocent of the crimes against humanity charges he faces in an international court.
		Kony's political agenda has always been murky, obscured by the claims he repeated in the interview that he was guided by spirits and the Bible.
		Kony's fighters are the remnants of a northern rebellion that began after Museveni, a southerner who took power in Uganda in 1986 at the head of a rebel army.
	www.cnn.com /2006/WORLD/africa/06/28/uganda.lordsresistance.ap (851 words)

	LRA’s Joseph Kony: First sight of rebel leader in 20 years
		Kony and his representatives briefly came out of hiding last week to meet Sudanese officials and discuss the possibility of peace talks between the LRA and President Yoweri Museveni’s Ugandan government, to be held in the southern Sudanese town of Juba.
		That Kony had also agreed to be interviewed by Western journalists, for the first time in 20 years, showed the seriousness with which he was contemplating an end to his killing campaign, which has plagued northern Uganda for a generation and more recently spread to southern Sudan and the DRC.
		Kony is said to insist that his followers read the Bible, and child soldiers who have escaped from the clutches of the LRA have claimed that Kony is possessed by spirits who speak in God’s name.
	www.religionnewsblog.com /14982/lras-joseph-kony-first-sight-of-rebel-leader-in-20-years (1326 words)

	Coalition for Darfur: Self Publication: Kony, Khartoum and the ICC
		Kony’s army is not so much a political movement as it is a ruthless criminal organization, committed to terrorizing, killing and destroying the lives of those unfortunate enough to inhabit the LRA’s hunting grounds.
		Not surprisingly, the potential prosecution of Kony was hailed by human rights organization, perhaps less for the impact it will have on the violence in Uganda than out of hope that the ICC is beginning to establish itself as a legitimate venue for trying those accused of committing war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.
		Kony is currently believed to be hiding in Southern Sudan, just beyond the so-called “red line”; a designated border sixty miles inside Sudan within which Khartoum has allowed the UPDF to operate in pursuit of Kony and the LRA.
	coalitionfordarfur.blogspot.com /2005/12/self-publication-kony-khartoum-and-icc.html (1564 words)

	Gordon's Notes: The bell curve of evil - Josef Stalin and Joseph Kony (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), a rebel group led by Joseph Kony, a man who thinks himself semi-divine, has spent the past 18 years slaughtering peasants, enslaving children and slicing off the lips and noses of conscripts it suspects of disloyalty...
		Kony, on the other hand, may be "one in a million", among the top 1000 most fundamentally evil men of our world.
		Mr Kony might hope to hide in a state that is not a party to the ICC.
	jfaughnan.blogspot.com /2005/05/bell-curve-of-evil-josef-stalin-and.html (343 words)

	MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Kony claims to be guided by spirits, stating that they come to him in dreams and tell him what to do.
		In addition to the violence Kony has instilled in the LRA, he is also accused of organizing the abduction and brainwashing of roughly 25,000 Ugandan youth for the purpose of building a vast army of killers.
		During the interview Kony also stated that his widely publicized reputation as a mass murderer is entirely false, an image concocted by the Museveni administration to weaken his efforts to protect the Acholi people from government repression.
	www.tkb.org /KeyLeader.jsp?memID=4105 (338 words)

	A Glimpse of the World: Childhood's End: For 19 years, Joseph Kony has been enslaving, torturing, raping, and murdering ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Joseph Kony and four other leaders of the L.R.A. were named in the first arrest warrants ever issued by the new International Criminal Court (I.C.C.).
		Kony has evidently made some kind of peace with his Sudanese Islamist patrons: in addition to his proclamation of the Ten Commandments, he once banned alcohol and announced that all pigs were unclean and that those who farm them, let alone eat them, were subject to death.
		She has been yelled at by Joseph Kony, humiliated by corrupt and hypocritical Sudanese “intermediaries,” dissed by the Ugandan political elite, and shamefully ignored by the international “human rights” community.
	www.howardwfrench.com /archives/2006/01/17/childhoods_end_for_19_years_joseph_kony_has_been_enslaving_torturing_raping_and_murdering_ugandan_children_many_of_whom_have_become_soldiers_for_his_lords_resistance_army_going_on_to_torture_rape_and_kill_other_children (2249 words)

	Ugandan Rebel Wants Peace With Government
		NAIROBI, May 24 -- One of the most wanted rebel chiefs in the world, Joseph Kony of the Lord's Resistance Army, has called for an end to his 20-year war with the Ugandan government in the first images of him seen in years.
		Kony and his rebels have spread terror in northern Uganda and southern Sudan in a conflict that has left tens of thousands of civilians dead and displaced 2 million.
		Kony and Machar pledged to end fighting, and Machar said he was ready to mediate between the LRA and President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/24/AR2006052402446_pf.html (334 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Africa \| Profile: Ugandan rebel Joseph Kony
		Joseph Kony, the leader of the notorious Lord's Resistance Army, is a mysterious, even mythical, figure.
		Kony, an ethnic Acholi, was born into a peasant family in Odek village, Gulu district in the early 1960s.
		Kony's decision to grant an interview to a foreign journalist is strategic.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/africa/5146662.stm (674 words)

	Elusive Ugandan rebel leader says he wants peace in rare video
		Joseph Kony, the elusive leader of Uganda's notorious Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and one of the world's most wanted men, says he wants to end nearly 20 years of brutal war, according to a rare video of the rebel supremo seen by AFP.
		Kony says he is ready for peace with the Ugandan government in a DVD recording of an early May meeting between the LRA chief and members of southern Sudan's autonomous government who are trying to mediate an end to the conflict.
		Kony and four other top LRA commanders -- including his deputy Vincent Otti who also appears in the video -- are on the run, having been indicted on war crimes charges by The Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC).
	www.turkishpress.com /news.asp?id=125153 (960 words)

	Untitled Document
		Like all terrorists, Joseph Kony and his cohorts in the Lords Resistance Army, try to justify their murder and terror on the population as a struggle for a just and noble cause.
		But Kony does not intend to rule in accordance with the ten commandments of the bible given his gruesome record and that of his forces.
		Kony’s claim to be fighting in order to establish a government based on the Ten Commandments of the bible may sound attractive in a conservative, dedicated and rural Roman Catholic community.
	www.iap.nl.com /speeches_annual_conference_2003_washington/terrorism_financing_speech_by_richard_buteera.htm (2333 words)

	Gulu Walk (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Kony lacks a clear identifiable political objective; instead his tactics appear to be aimed at discrediting the government by terrorizing civilians — the very people he claims to be fighting for.
		From the start, Joseph Kony exhibited ruthlessness in war, especially against children: cutting off lips and noses, using padlocks to lock the mouths of those they thought might report them, and cutting off hands and ears.
		The rebel army is led by the mysterious Joseph Kony, who was part of a previous rebel force in northern Uganda.
	guluwalk.com /learn (1942 words)

	UGANDA: LRA rebels ready to talk peace - Joseph Kony
		Kony and four other top LRA commanders - including his deputy, Vincent Otti, who also appears in the video, - are on the run, having been indicted in October 2005 on war crimes charges by the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague.
		Earlier this week, Museveni said he would "guarantee [Kony's] safety" if the LRA stopped fighting and agreed to peace talks by the end of July, although the nature of the promised protection was not immediately clear.
		Kony claims to be fighting to replace Museveni's government with one based on the Bible's 10 Commandments, but LRA fighters are more notorious for their brutal attacks on civilians and their abduction of tens of thousands of children for use as porters, sex slaves and child soldiers.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/news/2006/05/mil-060525-irin06.htm (626 words)

	Accord: Initiatives to end the violence in northern Uganda
		Contrary to expectations, however, Kony's forces were strengthened following a combination of forced recruitment of the remnants of the UPDA rebels and Lakwena's lost rear forces, and daring attacks against the government troops in Gulu district in 1988-89.
		Kony blamed them for Acholi's suffering and said that there were only three elders whom he could trust; the others were bloodthirsty people who had failed to guide the people in Acholi in its most serious hour of need.
		Kony had previously indicated that Bebabeba could continue meeting the elders if he felt their efforts were serious, but warned that it might be a ruse by the government.
	www.c-r.org /accord/uganda/accord11/lra.shtml (5834 words)

	Trinicenter.com \| The war against children
		Children are by definition innocents in need of a quality of care and guidance that would maximize their chances of meaningfully negotiating the world, not humans who come so behaviourally flawed or ill-equipped that they require violent correction.
		Joseph Kony is a monster by virtue of his murderous self-delusion, but the thing I find most dastardly about him is his violent undoing of children.
		The Kony case is obviously an extreme one: it does not seem that the average adult gets that violent against children, but it is the consequence in part of a view of children as naturally possessed of behaviour that is so bad that it needs violence or heavy-handedness rather than love.
	www.trinicenter.com /winford/2005/1509.htm (757 words)

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		Kony's rebels managed to curb atrocities committed against the Northerners by Uganda's military, but soon the rebels began committing their own war crimes.
		Kony deduces a battle's outcome by setting toy guns, and helicopters on fire to see how the models will burn; thereby foretelling victory or defeat in an upcoming battle.
		Kony's forces have killed more than five thousand civilians in Northern Uganda and the body count is still rising.
	www.secweb.org /asset.asp?AssetID=258 (1882 words)

	Uganda: Call for Peace from Rebel Chief’s Village (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Kony was most skilled at the traditional dance called the larakraka, and formed his own dance group that performed on holidays and at village celebrations, he said.
		I see Joseph Kony as a destroyer,” said Lukoya, adding that because Kony is focused on war, he feels no guilt.
		Kony is reportedly in southern Sudan and last week named a delegation to negotiate a peace deal.
	www.iwpr.net /?p=acr&s=f&o=321775&apc_state=henh (1283 words)

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