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The Lord’s Resistance Army (also Lord’s Resistance Movement or Lakwena Part Two) is a sectarian religious and military group, which operated in northern Uganda and Southern Sudan.

The group was formed in 1987 and until about 2007 it was engaged in an armed rebellion against the Ugandan government. It is led by Joseph Kony, who proclaims himself the “spokesperson” of God and a spirit medium, primarily of the Holy Spirit, which the group believe can represent itself in many manifestations.[4]

The group is based on apocalyptic Protestant Christianity,[5][6][7][8][9][10][11] but also is influenced[12] by a blend of mysticism[13] and traditional religion,[14] and claims to be establishing a theocratic state based on the Ten Commandments and local Acholi tradition.[4][15][16]

The LRA is accused of widespread human rights violations, including murder, abduction, mutilation, sexual enslavement of women and children and forcing children to participate in hostilities.[17]

The LRA used to operate mainly in northern Uganda and also in parts of South Sudan, Central African Republic and DR Congo.[18][19] The LRA is currently proscribed as a terrorist organization by the United States.[20][21]

In October 2011 President Barack Obama ordered the deployment of 100 U.S. troops to help hunt down the leaders of the Lord’s Resistance Army.[22]


60 posted on 10/14/2011 12:24:21 PM PDT by ThomasMore (Islam is the Whore of Babylon!)
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To: ThomasMore
A footnote to my post:

I disdain Obama for all that he stands for and believes. I question the way he utilizes our precious military. But this Kony guy and the LRA are bad bad bad news. Possible evil incarnate from all the mayhem, murder and suffering he has caused in central Africa.

64 posted on 10/14/2011 12:31:32 PM PDT by ThomasMore (Islam is the Whore of Babylon!)
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OK, so we already wiped out the muslim thugs in Africa I presume.


66 posted on 10/14/2011 12:34:56 PM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (George Washington: [Government] is a dangerous servant and a terrible master.)
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To: ThomasMore

Wikipedia is a leftist propaganda website.


113 posted on 10/14/2011 2:58:55 PM PDT by bushpilot1
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