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This picture, from almost exactly ten years ago, tells an important and sad story. Depicted are fighters who composed the core of Kony's personal security team in 2006, posing for British journalist Sam Farmar, who interviewed Kony in June 2006. At least two of the men here were killed on Kony's orders, and one escaped before he... Continue Reading →
Ten years ago, on 23 January 2006, at least eight peacekeepers from the United Nations mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), were killed by fighters of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in DRC's Garamba Park. The peacekeepers were part of a Guatemalan contingent called Kaibiles, reportedly some of the most able special forces in... Continue Reading →
Here is a list of most things I have written on Okot 'Odek' George, the former LRA combatant who surrendered last week in CAR. Similar to Dominic Ongwen, Okot was abducted at a very young age and taken under the wing of a senior LRA commander, in Okot's case, Kony. Both Kony and Okot come from... Continue Reading →
In short, no, certainly not in the late 1990s. He does not even figure in this organizational structure (below) of 1998, I compiled in 2011 based on info from former combatants. For sure things had changed by 2003 and 2004 when the International Criminal Court (ICC) investigators dispatched to Northern Uganda to investigate (and when Ongwen... Continue Reading →
OCTOBER 3, 2015 Joseph Kony and Mutiny in the Lord’s Resistance Army BY LEDIO CAKAJ http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/joseph-kony-and-mutiny-in-the-lords-resistance-army
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