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| US offers reward for Uganda warlord Kony |
| 2013-04-05 |
| [Al Jizz] The United States has offered bounties of up to $5m each for runaway Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony and some of his top aides in the Lord's Resistance Army ... The Lord's Resistance Army is a religious and military group formed in 1987. It is led by Joseph Kony, who proclaims himself the spokesperson of Godand a spirit medium, and who is periodically possessed by demons, Beelzebub and Legion prominent among them. Kony advises his soldiers to draw crosses on their chests as a protection against bullets. This does't work, but nobody outside the LRA minds. The group is based on a hodge podge of apocalyptic Christianity, mysticism, and traditional Acholi religion, and claims to be establishing a theocratic state based on an odd interpretation of the Ten Commandments. The LRA is famous for systematic criminal conduct, including murder, abduction, mutilation, sexual enslavement of women and children, forcing children to participate in hostilities, and occasional cannibalism. The LRA operates mainly in northern Uganda and also in parts of Sudan, Central African Republic and DR Congo... (LRA) rebel group. Kony's a bad guy and all right-thinking folk hope he dies soon and painfully. But I don't see where it's in U.S. interest to pay a reward for him. I'd think Uganda and Kenya and wherever else he seems to roam at will could maybe pool their resources and come up with a few bucks. The announcement on Wednesday came just as Uganda and Washington said they had been forced to suspend their two-year hunt for Kony in the jungles of the Central African Republic, after rebels seized power in Bangui. The US State Department said Kony, along with aides Okot Odhiambo and Dominic Ongwen, had been cited under the department's newly expanded War Crimes Rewards Programme. Under the programme, the State Department offers rewards for information leading to the arrest, transfer, or conviction of such runaways. The LRA "for almost 20 years has tormented and terrorised children across Uganda, the DRC, the Central African Republic and South Sudan. It has to stop", John F. I was in Vietnam, you knowKerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat,conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... , the US secretary of state, said. He admitted Kony and his cronies would "not be easy to find". "The LRA is broken down into small bands of rebels, scattered throughout dense jungle, hidden by dense canopy, controlling territory through tactics of fear and intimidation," he said in a column in the Huffington Post. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Up to $5m So do the mean five thousand or five million? I've seen the m used both ways, which is why I use mil when I mean 10^6. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2013-04-05 20:43 |
| #1 "Up to $5m?" Gee, too bad there's a sequester going on... |
| Posted by: Pappy 2013-04-05 10:26 |