former LRA Children used to fight LRA?
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M-A Lagrange
Also there are good reports on former abducted children trained by LRA integrated into LRA hunt.
Are you saying that former LRA child soldiers are being used to fight the LRA?
Working for whom? Museveni?
The LRA: an African Terrorist Group?
An academic commentary from Perspectives on Terrorism:http://www.terrorismanalysts.com/pt/...=145&Itemid=54
The introduction summary ends with:
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It is concluded that the LRA is too ambiguous an organisation to be simply labelled in such a way. It is also suggested that the terrorism label has in fact been an obstacle to attempts to end successfully a confrontation that is now going into its 24th year.
Worth reading just to get this:
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Gettleman ties this lack of ideology to the intractability of many of the current conflicts in Africa. Indeed, he uses the LRA as 'probably the most disturbing example’ of these new kinds of conflict, asking:
Even if you could coax them out of their jungle lairs and get them to a negotiating table, there is very little to offer them. They don’t want ministries or tracts of land to govern. Their armies are often traumatized children, with experience and skills (if you can call them that) totally unsuited for civilian life. All they want is cash, guns, and a license to rampage. And they’ve already got all three. How do you negotiate with that?
Citing:J. Gettleman. (2010) ‘Africa’s Forever Wars: Why the continent’s conflict never seem to end,’ Foreign Policy, March/April 2010.
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The case of the LRA should serve as a warning of both the difficulties of establishing whether a group in a conflict zone is truly a terrorist organisation and of the harm that such a label may cause when it comes to conflict resolution.
New technology undermined
MA-L,
Nice idea, but flawed. It is akin to a neighbourhood watch, LRA spotted, messages go out an who responds. In crime reduction "speak" who are the capable guardians? In theory it should be the state, but I expect they have little presence in such villages, nor the means for a rapid 'Fire Force' response.
I dread to think what will happen when say the original spotting village is raided by the LRA, the radio destroyed and the LRA leave. Will other radio users still use the radio?
Now if an air-mobile infantry company was added, that responded to sightings and stayed in villages at random - then I would be happier.