Lord's Resistance Army

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…

Aliases Originally known as the United Holy Salvation Army and Uganda Christian Army/Movement, the organization morphed into The Lord’s Resistance Army. The Lord`s Resistance Army was also known as The Lord`s Resistance Movement. There are no other aliases that many other names or aliases. Ideology The LRA was built by Joseph Kony; he believed that he was a prophet sent from God to cleanse the Ugandan people to create a bastion of peace. His ideology has been classified as Christian because…

Imagine a family walking through a field in Central Africa when suddenly attacked by armed soldiers. The soldiers force the children to kill their parents during their abduction. This is a frequent occurrence in Africa where the Lord’s Resistance Army is lurking. Child abductions are a huge problem in Central Africa because after being abducted girls are often forced to marry commanders and there are few reception centers available for care after being saved. The Lord’s Resistance Army is still…

Three decades of horror were lived by most of the African countries due to a violent group that goes by the name of lord’s resistance army from Uganda. What differentiate this group from the other terrorist groups is their ideology and their religion. The lord’s resistance army started in 1983 with a different name called the holy spirit movement. The holy spirit movement was defeated and its leader sent to exile. But that didn’t stop a man called joseph Kony to claim the leadership of the…

Getting to Know the Lord's Resistance Army For more than 25 years, an army of mostly child soldiers led by a man named Joseph Kony have been massacring and kidnapping civilians throughout Uganda. This conflict has since spread into other regions such as the Democratic Republic of Congo and areas of southern Sudan. Despite several attempts at meetings in addition to arrest warrants from the International Criminal Court against Kony and his troops, this war still rages on as one of the…

The Lord’s Resistance Army, Niger-Delta avengers and the M23 rebels are in different locations in Africa, contributes to the rising fear in each of their government. The hypothesis of this paper is if the rebel groups in their country control the natural resources, then the government doesn’t respond to any other their attacks against innocent civilians.The government will be more concerned about the natural resources of the country because of its improvements to the wealth of the state. The…

Unfortunately they achieve that and they sought vengeance against the ethnic groups. They killed, looted villages and burned them as well. These acts of violence led to the formations of many rebel groups from the previous Uganda amy. Many of the groups made peace treaties with Yoweri Museveni. “the southern-dominated army did not stop attacking civilians in the north of the country. Therefore, by late 1987 to early 1988 a civilian resistance movement led by Alice Lakwena was formed.”…

The Invisible Children foundation was established in 2004 by two filmmakers; Jason Russel and Bobby Bailey. In 2003, the two men journeyed to Uganda with the intentions of exposing a story to the world. The story that would ultimately become the most spoken of subjects in America in addition to the world. Russel and Bailey started the Kony 2012 Movement after being introduced to the vial tragedies in Uganda. A group called the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) led by Joseph Kony, abducted children…

have been displaced” (Blanchard 147). The LRA is similar, but also has some differences. The Lord’s Resistance Army is a rebel group fighting the Ugandan government (Otto 1). Joseph Kony, the leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army, has been kidnapping children and…

well as the other boys who were with him. When he was 16 he was rescued by UNICEF, United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund, he was put into rehabilitation center. It took him 8 months to rehabilitate, but still had to learn how to deal with the guilt and aftermath of being a child soldier. Grace Achara was abducted at the age of 14 by Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). She was 16 when she killed for the first time. The man she killed was sentenced for death for trying to escape, Grace was chosen to…