The Lord's Resistance Army, or LRA, is a violent rebel group led by Joseph Kony. The fight between the Ugandan government and the LRA is one of the longest running conflicts in Africa resulting back to 1986. To many experts, the LRA is one of the most brutal forces in the world. The LRA is notorious for committing human rights violations including murder, mutilation, rape, widespread abductions of children and adults, sexual slavery, and looting of villages. Throughout the years of existence, the LRA has grown to feared group by many people in Africa and as well as other surrounding continents and countries. Lord’s Resistance Army is demonstrated through its history, the evolvement of Joseph Kony as well as the United States of Americas progression
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They were attacking villages and abducting children in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) during the Peace Talks by the order of Joseph Kony. When the Final Peace Agreement was ready to be signed, Joseph Kony was nowhere to be found, repeating postponing the signing date or just didn’t feel like coming. It is believed that he did so, so that he and his army could rest and regroup. The entire time that the LRA was involved in peace talks, they were provided with food, clothing, and medicine as a gesture of good faith by the surrounding villages. It became clear after a two year hiatus that Kony wasn’t doing to sign it or have any intentions of meeting to discuss the issue. As a result, Operation Lightning Thunder was launched, which called for the coordinated effort of Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, and Sudan to attack the LRA. Unfortunately, the operation failed, because it was apparent that Kony somehow had an informant intergraded in one of the sides. He learned about the planned attack hours before and was able to escape. As …show more content…
Joseph Kony is the self-appointed ‘messiah’ of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and oversees the rebel group, responsible for Africa’s longest running armed conflict. He has kidnapped over 30,000 children to strengthen his army, forcing the boys to become soldiers and the girls to become sex slaves (“Invisible Children”). Kony instructs the members of his LRA to abduct, threaten, destroy, and murder in the name of his spiritual powers. Joseph Kony took over The Holy Spirit movement – a militaristic and spiritual rebel movement seeking to free the north of Uganda from government oppression – in 1986. It is unknown of their political position and our long term goals, nevertheless they take advantage of any commotion that affects central Africa for their own survival. Joseph Kony’s tactics were and still are extremely brutal. He often forced children to kill their parents and/or siblings with machetes or blunt tools. He disfigured those who stood in his way or those simply in the wrong place at the wrong time, cutting off innocent civilians’ noses, lips, and hands, any extremities to cause fear in others. He abducted girls to be sex slaves for his officers. It’s highly likely that Kony, with a small group of LRA., is currently hiding in some sort of Sudanese controlled ‘enclave’ bordering South Sudan and the Central African Republic It’s a place which Kony has been able to return time and time again to
They were attacking villages and abducting children in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) during the Peace Talks by the order of Joseph Kony. When the Final Peace Agreement was ready to be signed, Joseph Kony was nowhere to be found, repeating postponing the signing date or just didn’t feel like coming. It is believed that he did so, so that he and his army could rest and regroup. The entire time that the LRA was involved in peace talks, they were provided with food, clothing, and medicine as a gesture of good faith by the surrounding villages. It became clear after a two year hiatus that Kony wasn’t doing to sign it or have any intentions of meeting to discuss the issue. As a result, Operation Lightning Thunder was launched, which called for the coordinated effort of Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, and Sudan to attack the LRA. Unfortunately, the operation failed, because it was apparent that Kony somehow had an informant intergraded in one of the sides. He learned about the planned attack hours before and was able to escape. As …show more content…
Joseph Kony is the self-appointed ‘messiah’ of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and oversees the rebel group, responsible for Africa’s longest running armed conflict. He has kidnapped over 30,000 children to strengthen his army, forcing the boys to become soldiers and the girls to become sex slaves (“Invisible Children”). Kony instructs the members of his LRA to abduct, threaten, destroy, and murder in the name of his spiritual powers. Joseph Kony took over The Holy Spirit movement – a militaristic and spiritual rebel movement seeking to free the north of Uganda from government oppression – in 1986. It is unknown of their political position and our long term goals, nevertheless they take advantage of any commotion that affects central Africa for their own survival. Joseph Kony’s tactics were and still are extremely brutal. He often forced children to kill their parents and/or siblings with machetes or blunt tools. He disfigured those who stood in his way or those simply in the wrong place at the wrong time, cutting off innocent civilians’ noses, lips, and hands, any extremities to cause fear in others. He abducted girls to be sex slaves for his officers. It’s highly likely that Kony, with a small group of LRA., is currently hiding in some sort of Sudanese controlled ‘enclave’ bordering South Sudan and the Central African Republic It’s a place which Kony has been able to return time and time again to