| I guess if you're in the mood to kidnap children, use little girls as sexual playthings, and slaughter people with wild abandon, then Uganda's the place to be. |
UGANDAN President Yoweri Museveni pledged to grant Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebel leader Joseph Kony total amnesty if peace talks due to open in southern Sudan next week succeed. "The Ugandan government will grant total amnesty" to Mr Kony "despite the International Criminal Court (ICC) indictments if he responds positively to the talks with the government in Juba, southern Sudan and abandons terrorism," Museveni's office said in a statement. Delegates from both sides are currently in Juba preparing for peace talks to be mediated by the semi-autonomous government of southern Sudan aimed at ending more than two decades of fighting in northern Uganda and southern Sudan. Several attempts to broker an end to the notorious insurgency have failed in the past and war crimes indictments issued last year by the ICC against the elusive LRA supremo and four top lieutenants had initially cast doubt over the latest effort.