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Subject: Kony and LRA's reign of terror
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vampboy 1.01.21 - 11:24pm
Joseph Kony, who founded the guerrilla group in 1987, has largely abandoned his goal of overthrowing Ugandas President Yoweri Museveni.

He has also lost control of many of his battle-drained fighters now split between different autonomous factions.

So while his stronghold seems reduced; At least 55 attacks and 163 abductions have been recorded over the past year in the three countries where the group operates,according to data from Invisible Children, an NGO focused on the LRA.

Its reported that they have ambushed civilians and soldiers in remote corners of the Democratic Republic of Congo, pillaged markets in South Sudan, and forced villagers to porter stolen goods through forests in Central African Republic. And that was just over the course of a few weeks.



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vampboy 1.01.21 - 11:27pm
Its also been reported that while they are still a threat, they have been reduced to selling honey to get by and often struggle to push through a day.

The LRA seems to have gone from a fearsome fighting force to a small band struggling to survive. Is now the moment to finally end the group?
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vampboy 1.01.21 - 11:30pm


Rangers recently found discarded mosquito nets around areas purported to be inhabited by the LRA. * +

vampboy 1.01.21 - 11:32pm
Should former Child soldiers of Kony today be convicted and punished for their crimes? Are they truly culpable? * +

vampboy 1.01.21 - 11:33pm
''THE VERDICT IS DUE IN JANUARY IN THE WAR CRIMES TRIAL OF DOMINIC ONGWEN, FORMER CHILD SOLDIER AND COMMANDER OF UGANDAS LORDS RESISTANCE ARMY. BUT FOR SOME UGANDANS HIS STORY ISNT A SIMPLE TALE''

Once, there was a boy, and in many ways he was unremarkable. He attended school. He liked playing with his friends. His family was as poor as any in northern Uganda.

Then, when he was somewhere between nine and 14 (at that time, northern Ugandan families would rarely take note of their childrens birth dates), he was abducted by the Lords Resistance Army, a rebel group controlled by the charismatic and brutal leader Joseph Kony.

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vampboy 1.01.21 - 11:34pm
The following decades would see Dominic Ongwen indoctrinated and trained as a soldier, rising through the ranks to become a senior commander.

Today; a verdict passed could see this boy turned war criminal walking to prison for life at the International criminal court. * +

vampboy 1.01.21 - 11:37pm


This is Dominic Ongwen. * +

alanball 2.01.21 - 02:47pm
for the update *

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