Ugandan army says it destroyed Joseph Kony camp

Posted on August 21, 2024

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Ugandan army announces destruction of three camps “belonging to Ugandan militants” in Central African Republic Joseph Kony”, the founding leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) guerrilla group, wanted by international justice since 2005.

The Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) was founded in Year The former altar boy terrorized large swathes of central Africa over a three-decade period starting in 1980. She is accused of being responsible for the deaths of more than 100,000 people and the kidnapping of 60 people. 000 Children, boys became soldiers, girls became sex slaves.Ugandait has spread to forests in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Central Africa, South Sudan and Sudan.

Camps destroyed, equipment confiscated

Army Commando Uganda The UPDF, accompanied by South Sudanese and Central African soldiers, “launched an operation against three camps of Joseph Kony in the Central African Republic, close to the Sudanese border,” the UPDF announced in a press release published on X. ” this The camp was destroyed and the equipment was confiscated,” the military added, publishing a photo of a house on fire.

Remaining members of the Lord’s Resistance Army ‘still in refuge’ RCA or elsewhere on the African continent African will be hunted down. If they do not go to the authorities for proper treatment and rehabilitation, they will continue to be treated as criminals,” she assured.

Joseph Kony has been hunted for many years Still can’t trackThe Supreme Leader is Lord’s Resistance Army He rarely appears in public. In 2006, he assured a Western journalist (one of the few foreigners who have met him) that he was “not a terrorist” but was “fighting for democracy.”

Kony, first indicted at the International Criminal Court

Many acts of abuse will be worth it In 2005, Kony and four of his deputies became the first suspects to be indicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC), charging them with crimes against humanity and war crimes (murder, rape, enslavement, register Children…).

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On August 13, a Ugandan court convicted former Lord’s Resistance Army commander Thomas Kwoyelo of 44 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

In 2021, Dominic Ongwenchild Soldier The Ugandan, who became one of the main commanders of the Lord’s Resistance Army, was sentenced to 25 years in prison by the International Criminal Court in 2017 for war crimes and crimes against humanity. this Haye.

(AFP report)