Joseph Kony and the Lord's Resistance Army

Joseph Kony and the Lord's Resistance Army

Introduction

Joseph Rao Kony was born in 1960 in a village among the Acholi people in north Uganda in Odek. He was declared to be a catholic altar boy (BBC, 2012). He is the head of the (LRA) Lord's Resistance Army. It is also known as Lord Resistance Movement (LRM). LRA is a Ugandan guerrilla group. The LRA controls Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan and Central African Republic in Uganda (The NY Times, 2012). While he was enjoying strong public shore up initially, supposedly LRA bowed to his own followers, allegedly to turn Uganda into theocracy and to making Acholi people Purified. Kony declare himself as s spirit medium and a representative of the God. He also claims that multinational host of 13 spirits including Chinese phantom have visited him. Ideologically, the group is a syncretic mix of nationalism of Acholi, fundamentals of Christians, Islam, and spirituality, and claims to be establishing theoretical state stand upon the local Acholi tradition and Ten Commandments (Newsweek, 2012). Government entities blame Kony for ordering the seizure of children to become child soldier and child sex slaves (BBC, 2012). Since 1986, around two million people have been relocated internally and 66,000 children became soldiers. In The Hague, Netherlands, International Criminal Court prosecute Kony for crimes against humanity and for war crimes in 2005 but he has avoid imprison (BBC, 2012).

Discussion

In Uganda, LRA have been struggling for past 2 decades. It has become the greatest conflict of the Africa. The group with popular support is infamous for targeting civilians and kidnapping children (Time, 2012). It is lead by a nature prophet Joseph Kony, who declares to be struggling to turn back the Acholi group to the God. The northern districts of Gulu, Pader and Kitgum of Uganda possessed insecurity. Sometimes these districts are referred to as Acholiland. The radicals have also functioned in the districts of Apac, Lira, Soroti, Kabaramaido, Adjumani and Katakwi of the eastern and northern Uganda. More recently, it has also operated in the northeastern Democratic republic of Congo and southern Sudan. The conflict has widened the divide between the south and north Uganda, and devastated the region. Conflict caused the dislocation of about 90 per cent of the population of the Acholi which was over 1.8 million. Conflict was also forcing them to live overcrowded camps of squalid. This is completely against the general poverty in the region. That's the region where 67 per cent of the people life is under the paucity line. President Yoweri Museveni's utmost crash is the consequent humanitarian crisis and the conflict. Uganda's demobilization, Disarmament and reintegration acquire place in this context. It was arranged to help combine serenity at the end, rather than being a prearranged process. It was an essential reply to stable drip and sometimes overflows of previous insurgent seizers, who run away from LRA. Many of them are women, minors and girls.

The uncertainty hauls on for two decades with no real ...