 Leaders of the Lords Resistance Army (LRA) have said they want to leave southern Sudan - where they have assembled for peacetalks - and return to Uganda. | "We are unwelcome in Sudan so they have to go back to Uganda. We foresee that is the only logical option." |
Monday's statement comes after the LRA's ended peace talks with Uganda on Friday. If the LRA returns to Uganda, it would mark the start of a new round of civil war in the African country. "We are unwelcome in Sudan so they have to go back to Uganda," LRA spokesman Obonyo Olweny told Reuters by telephone from Nairobi on Monday. "We foresee that is the only logical option."
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The Ugandan army said they would attack the LRA if they tried to cross back into Uganda. "We shall hit them," Major Felix Kulayigye, a Ugandan army spokesman, said. "Any attempt to come back to northern Uganda would be taken as a resumption of war." |