Formed in Northern Uganda in the late 1980s, the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), head by mad-man Joseph Kony, who believes he is the re-incarnation of the messiah, has kidnapped children as recruits and killed civilians for over two decades. The movements of the LRA have since spread to Southern Sudan, Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, three nations with already existing internal problems without the military capacity to stop the destruction of the LRA. A new report by American President Barack Obama does not even offer peace-talks as an option for stopping the movements of the LRA. It suggests that disarming the military group and capturing it's leaders (wanted by the international criminal court) is the only option. But over such a vast expanse of terrain with limited personnel, and with the need to peacefully disarm the many children who part of this army, it will prove difficult.
http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=91612
(New plan by Obama to disarm the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda)
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