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	Lord's Resistance Army - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The LRA asked for a general amnesty for their combatants and stated that they would not surrender, but were willing to "return home." However, the government stance was hampered by disagreement over the credibility of the LRA negotiatiors and political infighting.
		In return, the LRA was expected to deny territory to the SPLA and periodically participate in joint operations with the Sudanese army.
		Representatives of the United Nations and the Congolese national army met with a band of LRA thought to be under the command of Vincent Otti in northeastern DRC on 25 September 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lords_Resistance_Army (6796 words)

	Lord's Resistance Army: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), formed in 1987, is a rebel paramilitary group operating mainly in northern Uganda (Uganda: A landlocked republic in eastern Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1962).
		It is led by Joseph Kony (Joseph Kony: joseph kony is the primary leader of the ugandan lords resistance army (lra)....
		The LRA asked for a general amnesty for their combatants and stated that they would not surrender, but were willing to "return home." Bigombe reassured the LRA that they would not be treated as a vanquished foe and Wasswa agreed to a cease-fire to allow the negotiations to continue.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/lords_resistance_army (7584 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Northern Uganda's children growing up in shadow of war
		They are here to escape the grasp of a shadowy rebel group known as the Lords Resistance Army, or LRA, which wants to topple Uganda's government and replace it with one based on the biblical Ten Commandments.
		Rescued by Ugandan army soldiers just two weeks ago, he began a rehabilitation program for former child soldiers and others abducted by the LRA, many of them forced to become wives of rebel commanders or used as human mules to carry equipment.
		For Pamela, a former LRA soldier and a wife to a rebel commander for most of her teen years, the song is autobiographical.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/ABES-6MMTTT?OpenDocument (980 words)

	Uganda-CAN » Archive
		LRA forces have abducted three Congolese gold prospecters in northeast Democratic Republic of the Congo, reported the regional head of the Congolese military in the SudanTribune.
		A senior Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) commander, who is the suspected masterminded behind the ambush of a bus in which twelve died on Monday, has been killed by Ugandan military forces in Gulu district of northern Uganda.
		LRA are believed to be targeting employees of Western organizations in retaliation for the arrest warrants recently released by the International Criminal Court.
	www.ugandacan.org /archive/1/2005-11 (10058 words)

	Uganda-CAN » Audio Journal
		Alice Lakwena is the spiritual founder of Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army.
		A 17-year rebel war by the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda has brought economic activity in the north of the East African country to a virtual standstill.
		The government has told the LRA that the release of the girls is a necessary condition for the opening of negotiations with the group.
	www.ugandacan.org /audio.php (1411 words)

	Catholic World News : Uganda declares ceasefire for talks with rebels
		The government's November 14 announcement comes after LRA leaders said that they were hoping to negotiate a peace settlement, to end the long civil war that has wracked the northern region of Uganda.
		LRA leaders have indicated a willingness to negotiate in the past, but on each such occasion, the ceasefire has broken down, with rebels resuming their raids on villages in northern Uganda.
		In 2002, LRA leader Joseph Kony was thought to control between 2,000 and 3,000 active guerrilla troops.
	www.cwnews.com /news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=33436 (264 words)

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		The gruesome atrocities of the LRA are designed to instil fear in the civilians, but it is the frequency of the rebel attacks that is causing most alarm.
		On a daily basis the rebels are attacking to loot and abduct and the army is failing to protect the civilian population.
		Despite the terror inflicted by the LRA, civilians are largely ready to forgive in order to see the back of the 17-year-old conflict.
	astro.temple.edu /~bstavis/courses/215-lords-resistance-army-1.htm (840 words)

	SudanTribune article : South Sudanese flee homes amid raids by Ugandan rebels-UN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Refugees who have fled to U.N. camps have said rebels from the Lord’s Resistance Army swept into their villages, hacking residents to death, burning houses and destroying crops, the United Nations Advance Mission in Sudan said in a statement released Wednesday.
		The Lord’s Resistance Army rebels have been battling the Ugandan government for 18 yeas, waging a campaign of murder, rape and abductions in northern Uganda and long using southern Sudan as a base.
		LRA attacks have spread in recent months along the eastern shores of the Nile River from northern Uganda town of Adjumani across the border into south Sudan, where rebel activity appears to be on the increase in a triangle bounded by the towns of Nimule, Juba and Torit, said UNAMIS spokeswoman Radhia Achouri.
	www.sudantribune.com /article_impr.php3?id_article=9414 (481 words)

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		KAMPALA, 17 Feb 2005 (IRIN) - The Ugandan army allows former child soldiers from the rebel Lords' Resistance Army (LRA) into its ranks because it is a better option for them than remaining with the insurgents, Shaban Bantariza, army spokesman, said on Wednesday.
		Hyun pointed out, however, that the main offender in Uganda on the child soldier front was the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), which had mainly used children to wage war against the government of President Yoweri Museveni.
		According to the spokesman, the army had so far incorporated 800 former rebels, some of whom were slightly underage.
	www.irinnews.org /report.asp?ReportID=45610&SelectRegion=East_Africa&SelectCountry=UGANDAl (760 words)

	Agathon Rwasa: Will the UN finally call time on the Lord's Resistance Army?
		Instead of the LRA to gain the support and the sympathy of the masses, it embarks on killing, torturing, rapping, kidnapping, and gradually driving the rural masses to resettlement camps far from their homes.
		As oppose of creating a parallel structure of government, the LRA instead allies itself with a brutal regime of Khartoum acting as its proxy to terrorist the population of the South Sudan and those of Northern Uganda.
		The LRA leadership has already been indicted by the International Tribunal and a warrant for their arrested is out.
	agathonrwasa.blogspot.com /2006/01/will-un-finally-call-time-on-lords.html (1174 words)

	iafrica.com \| news \| world news Ugandan army brutality exposed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Ugandan army is as guilty as the brutal Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels in abusing civilians devastated by nearly two decades of conflict in northern Uganda, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said, calling for probe into the conduct of government forces.
		The report also blamed the army for failing to carrying out patrols and of sometimes fleeing the LRA insurgents when they carry out massive attacks in the region.
		The LRA took over leadership of a rebellion in northern Uganda in 1988 and vowed to overthrow the government of President Yoweri Museveni and replace it with one based on the biblical Ten Commandments.
	iafrica.com /news/worldnews/489578.htm (561 words)

	ACT Appeals
		During this time the LRA has killed or mutilated thousands of innocent civilians, abducted tens of thousands of children forcing them into combat, and subjecting them to torture and sexual violence.
		In June 2003 the rebels of the Lords Resistance Army (LRA) started to mount attacks in Katakwi and the neighbouring district of Soroti.
		The UN estimates that since the LRA made its incursion into eastern Uganda around June of 2003, an additional 240,000 people have been displaced in the Teso region, including 150,000 in the Katakwi district.
	www.act-intl.org /appeals/appeals_2003/AFUG32-sum.html (559 words)

	EIR
		However, the government accuses the 44-year old Catholic priest, an official of the Acholi Religious Leaders Peace Initiative, a mainly Catholic group in northern Uganda, of collaborating with and being sympathetic to the LRA led by Joseph Kony, a former Roman Catholic catechist.
		Meanwhile, Uganda's military said on Monday it would retaliate for one of the worst atrocities carried out by LRA insurgents in the country's north after a weekend massacre of about 200 civilians at a camp for internally displaced people, near the town of Lira.
		The attack came despite recent statements by President Yoweri Museveni that the LRA was on the verge of defeat.
	www.episcopalchurch.org /6947_29469_ENG_Print.html (423 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Africa \| Profile: Uganda's LRA rebels
		The Lord's Resistance Army, which has been fighting the Ugandan Government for nearly 18 years, has become know for its brutality, but the reasons for their rebellion are less well known.
		She was in turn defeated in 1987 - and other rebels threw in the towel - leaving a power vacuum in northern Uganda.
		It was this that Joseph Kony filled with the Lord's Resistance Army.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/3462901.stm (464 words)

	Lord's Resistance Army :: Ugandan rebels grab (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The rebels of the Lords Resistance Army, carried out a series of attacks over the weekend, kidnapping 41 people.
		The Ugandan army carried out operations against the rebels and were able to release 34 people, some of whom had been held for three or four years.
		As a result of recent insecurity on the road, eight WFP trucks were on Saturday escorted by army trucks carrying 60 soldiers and accompanied by two armoured vehicles.
	www.religionnewsblog.com /853-_Ugandan_rebels_grab_.html (695 words)

	Anna Kåri : Ugandan Child Soldiers freed from the Lords Resistance Army (LRA)
		The LRA small and without proper funds have no chance of ever wining, but they have caused great suffering for the local Acholi people, who are paradoxically the ones they claim to be fighting to free.
		With no popular support the LRA raid the local villages for food and children, who they abduct and force to become their wives and soldiers.
		The children are treated terribly, if anyone tries to run away or is too weak to keep going, their own comrades are forced to put them to death.
	www.annakari.com /portfolio/childsoldiers.html (246 words)

	Cape Argus - Haunted children robbed of innocent memories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Twelve years ago Richard was abducted from his home in Kayo by members of the Lords Resistance Army, close to the main northern town of Gulu.
		The hardened rebel soldier dressed in the government army uniform that was looted off a corpse was a true veteran of the movement.
		Although the increasingly vague purpose behind the LRA had been to defend or liberate the Acholi people, the politics of the region had drawn their fighters into a two-pronged battle which saw them act as a buffer for the Khartoum government, thousands of kilometres away in the north.
	www.capeargus.co.za /index.php?fSectionId=137&fArticleId=2620323 (1291 words)

	Unbenanntes Dokument (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The parties involved are the rebel groups of the Lords Resistance Army (LRA) whose political agenda remains unknown and the government of Uganda.
		In1993 towards the end of the year, peace talks between the government and the LRA began under the leadership of the minister for pacification of Northern Uganda, Betty Bigombe and there was some peace up to February when the president of Uganda gave the rebels a seven days ultimatum to surrender.
		Uganda government signed a peace agreement with Sudan to allow Ugandan troops to dislodge the LRA from their bases from southern Sudan, most of the LRA bases are destroyed and they are always on the run.
	www.vidc.org /vidc/uganda.htm (1444 words)

	Netting Uganda’s Rebels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Five top figures in the Lord’s Resistance Army, LRA, were listed in the warrants and if apprehended, they would stand trial at the ICC for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
		But even though the military outnumbers the LRA 20 to one in the region, it has been unable to carry out any of the arrests since they were ordered.
		In Sudan, meanwhile, the LRA has historically served Khartoum as a useful policy instrument as it battles secessionist groups in the oil-rich south.
	www.iwpr.net /?p=acr&s=f&o=260477&apc_state=henh (1329 words)

	monuc.org: 'Kony Moving Towards DR Congo' ::: 22/09/2005
		THE army said yesterday the Lords Resistance Army leader, Joseph Kony, is moving towards northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
		The UPDF commander Lt. General Aronda Nyakairima warned last week that the LRA's Vincent Otti has crossed to the Congolese side with 50 men.
		Otema dismissed fears that LRA might join hands with other groups the army claims are in DRC.
	www.monuc.org /news.aspx?newsID=8384 (167 words)

	CNN.com - Ugandan army frees kidnap children - Feb. 27, 2003
		Lords' Resistance Army rebels snatched the children, all aged between 12 and 14, from an elementary school in Abuga, 375km (233 miles) north of Kampala, on Wednesday and then retreated into the bush, said army spokesman Lieutenant Paddy Ankunda.
		Army units in the area pursued the rebels, who took refuge in a small forest, which the soldiers surrounded, Ankunda said.
		The rebels, who rarely speak to journalists, could not be reached for comment, and the army's account could not be independently verified.
	www.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/africa/02/27/uganda.kidnap.ap (265 words)

	JRS Reportages - Sudan: insecurity in Nimule soars
		Since the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement last year between the Government of Sudan and the Sudanese People's Liberation Army/ Movement (SPLA/M), the Ugandan rebel group, the Lords Resistance Army (LRA), has changed tactics and increased the frequency of its attacks on the local population in southern Sudan.
		It appears that the LRA has reorganised into small groups of approximately 10 men who attack villages in search of food.
		As the second school term begins, JRS staff continue to monitor the security situation and the effects it is having on the local population, in particular on the school children.
	www.jesref.org /reports/report.php?lang=fr&repId=sd050515en (619 words)

	UK government is neglecting the victims of Africa's longest running war /30.11.05
		Despite being Africa's longest running war, the 19-year conflict between the Ugandan government and the rebel group, the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), has never been formally addressed by the UN Security Council.
		The attacks follow the indictment of five members of the LRA by the International Criminal Court in mid-October.
		The Lord's Resistance Army has kidnapped over 25,000 children during almost 20 years of war.
	www.christianaid.org.uk /news/media/pressrel/051130p.htm (775 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Africa \| Sudan 're-arming Uganda rebels'
		The latest round of accusations follows reports that the Ugandan army received information from an LRA defector, David Oneka, about the alleged supply of arms, including anti-tank missiles, by Sudan to the rebels.
		The Uganda army spokesman, Major Shaban Bantariza, said it might be "pointless" to renew the protocol.
		The Ugandan army has been fighting the LRA in northern Uganda since 1988, since when hundreds of thousands of people have been either displaced, maimed or killed.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/africa/3182133.stm (394 words)

	news from ekklesia
		The statement said that children were being forced to fight in the 18-year-old insurgency for the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and "were dying in large numbers." They added that the rebellion had claimed thousands of lives, displaced a million people and spread fear throughout the region.
		The LRA is a quasi-religious rebel group that insists it wants Uganda to be governed solely by the Ten Commandments.
		Referring to recent violence in Barlonyo camp, in which 200 people were reportedly killed, the bishops' statement said that the government of Uganda and the LRA had to recommit themselves to dialogue and reconciliation.
	www.ekklesia.co.uk /content/news_syndication/article_2004_03_12_uganda.shtml (449 words)

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