Christian Lord's Resistance Army at the center of war and terror in Uganda - Political Forum

Sebelius for VP, not Hillary · 06-10-2007, 05:27 AM

Well, it is often said by those on the right that Muslims are the only one's who do terrorism. However, we can see the ETA in Spain which is a Christian terrorist group and the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) as another major Christian terrorist group that has been regularly committing war crimes for the past fifteen years.

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Lord's Resistance Army (LRA)

Base of Operation: Congo, Democratic Republic of the; Sudan; Uganda

Founding Philosophy: Based in Northern Uganda and Sudan, the Lord's Resistance Army seeks to destabilize and overthrow the government of Uganda. Formed in 1992 in an attempt to unify a resistance movement fractured by the marginalization of the Uganda Democratic Christian Army, the group promotes a radical form of Christianity which it wants to make the foundation of a new Ugandan government. The group, led by Joseph Kony, has sought to achieve these objectives primarily through unbridled brutality. Rape, torture, and murder have become the group's hallmarks in the almost fifteen years that they have terrorized the citizens of Northern Uganda. The ranks of the LRA are filled in large part (approximately 80%) by children, who are kidnapped and brainwashed into service with the group. Human rights NGOs place the number of children currently fighting with LRA at around 3,000. LRA members also kidnap children, particularly girls, to serve as sex slaves; some have even been given as "gifts" to arms dealers in Sudan.

LRA attacks have been notable for both their brutality and their pointlessness. Two popular nightspots have been bombed, a bus full of people was attacked by club-wielding LRA soldiers who caused 22 fatalities, and an Italian priest was murdered. Other victims include World Food Program volunteers, the former President of Uganda, and mourners at a funeral, who were forced to cook and eat the body of the deceased. No discernible political program underlies these attacks aside from Kony's desire to cause extreme pain and suffering to all Acholi tribes that do not support the LRA.

In 2002, the Sudanese government reversed its longstanding policy of support for the LRA and began cooperating in efforts to eliminate the group’s sanctuaries. Despite this declaration, the LRA continued to perpetrate its brutal attacks within Uganda, both in its longstanding operational area in the north, as well as on targets to the east.

Current Goals: The peace talks, which are taking place in the southern Sudanese town of Juba, are being mediated by south-Sudanese Vice-President Riek Machar. As the process gains momentum and there is increased participation from LRA leadership, other government leaders from Sudan, Uganda, and the Republic of the Congo are expected to join the talks. While the LRA leaders believe that coming out of hiding may result in their arrest on warrants issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC), government officials agree that a lasting ceasefire is contingent on the presence and participation from LRA’s top-level.

The struggling peace process gained renewed attention in November 2006, when Jan Egeland, the UN Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, traveled to LRA camps near Ri-Kwangba along the Sudan-Uganda border. Egeland and Kony were scheduled to meet, each bringing their own objectives to the table. Egeland was particularly interested in obtaining the release of Acholi women and children abducted by the LRA and held in the camps, while Kony sought to gain an ally in his case with the ICC. The actual meeting, despite being cordial, was brief and did not produce the desired outcomes for either side. When confronted with the possibility of releasing the women and children, Kony denied their existence. However, the fact that the meeting took place without any problems, as well as generated publicity by the attendance of a UN official such as Egeland, creates a positive scenario for the tenuous peace talks. Additional visits from UN representatives may be a necessary tactic to foster stability in the surrounding region.

Brother Oz · 06-10-2007, 08:20 AM

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ETA in Spain which is a Christian terrorist group

ETA is a nationalist terrorist group.

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the group promotes a radical form of Christianity which it wants to make the foundation of a new Ugandan government

Now that's an understatement. Their leader believes himself a virtual messiah, and he wants to create a government based on Old Testament laws, such as the execution of gays, pagans, witches, adulterers, etc. To be honest, it's more a mix of extremist Judaism and Christianity than pure Christianity.

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The ranks of the LRA are filled in large part (approximately 80%) by children, who are kidnapped and brainwashed into service with the group.

They also feed them Crack to get them to fight.

Things are starting to look up with this actually. There are some very basic beginnings of peace talks. The LRA has lost all its external support, so they have to talk now.

Falango · 08-17-2007, 03:33 AM

Well i dont really know how do you communicate in here, i was just interrested in the christian revolutionary resistance In Sudan, cuz i believe their cause is the same as ours in Lebanon.
I come from a weird country where the civilisations conflict is a daily news, therefor i really care if anyone likes to share with me his experience, especially in Sudan...
And just for the record, i really appreaciate what you're doing.

For cominication e-mail me at:
lama_abourjeily@hotmail.com

Falango · 08-17-2007, 03:41 AM

besides. i think that what u said up above about the christian movements around the world is totally wrong. It is well known that christianism can and will NEVER be about kidnapping kids and enslaving women.. i mean come on

gimme a break

Brother Oz · 08-17-2007, 07:53 AM

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Well i dont really know how do you communicate in here, i was just interrested in the christian revolutionary resistance In Sudan, cuz i believe their cause is the same as ours in Lebanon.

The Sudanese rebels, who are an alliance of Christians and Animists, want independance for the English speaking south from the Arabic speaking north (I don't mean the normal people speak English, I mean the elites). They also want to get away from the north because it's run by an Islamist government that is notoriously brutal.

Brother Oz · 08-17-2007, 05:58 PM

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it just seems that intensly religious people are at the root of terrorism.

The most popular type of terrorism right now, but from the end of WW1 it was mostly far-right death squads and the Red Brigades. And historically, most terrorists have been nationalists trying to liberate their country from a much more powerful Imperial ruler.

vladward8 · 09-02-2007, 10:02 PM

History is almost never what one expects. How wonderfull it would be if there was a historic epoch titled "The African Miracle"....one where some single meeting of the Continents various State Leaders decided to creat 'The United States of Africa' and quickly outpaced the rest of the world in terms of technological and humanitarian achievment.

J.Locke777 · 09-03-2007, 03:47 AM

Well, from what I've read here and on other sites like BBC and what I got from a quick google search, these people may call themselves christian, but they are not. They are nothing more than a cult terrorist group trying to hide behind the veil of religion, and I can see right through it. People who do this are not Christian, same with the Inquisition and those behind the crusades. They were not real christians, but that's off topic. I just want to dispell any notions of people thinking these guys are christian. They are decitfull, and liars, murderers, the list goes on. these are not the traits of real christianity.

GHook93 · 09-04-2007, 10:02 AM

Yea but they keep them localized to their regions. ETA to Spain. LRA keeps it local to their African nations.

Islamic terrorist go global. They are the international terrorist. They are the ones that have announced Jihad on the West. The ETA and LRA have not. The international community and leftist elitist keep complaining about the US sticking their noses were it doesn't belong. ETA and LRA are not threats to the US, that is why the war on terror is targetted toward the Islamic Facists.