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| Uganda: Reward Offered for the Capture of God |
| 2002-12-09 |
| Which, by the way, is the title of the article in Pravda. Don't ever say these guys at Pravda don't have a sense of humor. Ha-ha. The Lord’s Resistance Army is ruled by a man called Joseph Kony, a modern-day Pol Pot, who kidnaps children and forces them to fight the Ugandan government forces and takes nuns from convents and turns them into sex slaves. I realize that there are greater evils in the world right now, but by George W. we ought to be helping the Ugandans somehow. The Ugandan Army is now being offered a 16,000 Euro bounty for the capture of this man who is worshipped as a God by his followers. I'd be happy to contribute. Can we set up a PayPal account for this? Kony and his murderous band of criminals operates from southern Sudan, striking deep into Uganda. His activities have caused the internal displacement of one and a half million persons. Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army has a peculiar set of rules. Based on the Ten Commandments, one of which is Thou shalt not kill, he then forces new members to murder family members to prove their loyalty and commitment to him. Kony basks in the adoration of his followers, claiming to have visitations from the Holy Ghost. I'm not a psychiatrist, but I think we can make a diagnosis here. The Ugandan government has signed a treaty with the Sudanese government which will allow the Ugandan army to cross the border to try to flush Kony out of his hideout before he can murder many more innocent victims. In the past two months, 4,000 people have disappeared during raids by his followers, who wear crucifixes and other religious insignia, which Kony tells them will protect them from bullets. Yep, we got a diagnosis all right. Kony has perpetrated horrific acts of torture, beating people to death with rifle butts, cutting people to pieces with machetes and boiling people alive before forcing the close relatives to eat the bodies. He intends to overthrow the Ugandan government and install his regime in Kampala, setting up a theocracy based on the Ten Commandments. These guys are worse than the Taliban. Perhaps some of the EU countries, since they don't want to help us with Iraq, could lend a hand here. I'll go so far as to suggest that the Poles and/or the Romanians could help out and consider this part of paying their dues to be a part of NATO. It'd be good training for their paratroop units and logistics guys. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #2 And there are some unfortunate ties between the Army of God and the southern Sudanese rebels, I think. Uganda's recent foray into the Congo has to give Sudan pause. They tend to go and stay, and Sudan wants southern Sudan for themselves, Moslem and oil rich. While they'd like the Christians beat up on, the Ugandans might not go away like good little boys. |
| Posted by: Chuck 2002-12-10 08:43:12 |
| #1 The Ugs have been chasing these horrors through Uganda and Sudan since, I believe, March. At one point they claimed to have effectively wiped them out - guess they missed some. Sudan recently declined to renew its permission to the Ugs to chase them on its territory. This isn't because Sudan has any kind of sympathy for them, but because the Ugs have shown no sign of being able to actually finish the job they've set out to do. |
| Posted by: Fred 2002-12-09 23:24:06 |