COIN case: LRA Lords Resistance Army

[carl]

David:

Maybe this link will work. It goes directly to the video.

http://video.nytimes.com/video/2010/...html?th&emc=th

I wonder it they have tried or if it would be practicable to use Pygmy trackers in the effort. Those guys are pretty good.

[davidbfpo]

Carl,

Thanks that link worked and yes the pilot footage is intriguing.

[Michael F]

The NEW ICG report on the LRA. A MUST READ

http://www.crisisgroup.org/~/media/F...ng%20Kony.ashx

[M-A Lagrange]

Uganda Army Seeks More Funding To Flush LRA Rebels Out of Congo, CAR

Publié le 06 Mai 2010 Copyright © 2010 Dowjones - KAMPALA Uganda -(Dow Jones)-

The Ugandan army wants the government to increase its budget allocation to enable it to pursue and flush out remnants of the notorious rebels of Lord's Resistance Army from northeastern Congo and the Central African Republic, Uganda's defense minister said.
Crispus Kiyonga said in a ministerial presentation to Parliament Wednesday that the army requires an additional budget allocation of 25 billion Ugandan shillings ($12.5 million) in the current fiscal year ending in June to boost its logistical supplies and pursue the LRA in the resource-rich areas.
"This funding is required as a matter of urgency; the LRA is still active in Congo and the Central African Republic," he said, adding that the money would be spent to buy soldiers' uniforms, medicine and arms.
The Ugandan army has already been allocated UGX457 billion for the current fiscal year.
The LRA has waged an insurgency, targeting mainly civilians in northern Uganda, northeastern Congo as well as the Central African Republic for over two decades and its leader, Joseph Kony, is wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes.
According to analysts, the continued presence of Ugandan rebels in the volatile eastern and northeastern areas of Congo is a threat to security in Uganda's oil-rich Lake Albert basin, where commercial oil production is slated to start later next year.
Mediators are also trying to convince the remnants of the Allied Democratic Forces, which has bases in eastern Congo, to sign a peace accord with government ahead of planned oil production. In 2007, the ADF invaded the oil region but was swiftly repulsed by the Ugandan army.

http://www.easybourse.com/bourse/act...congo-car.html

[M-A Lagrange]

US lawmakers pass legislation to end LRA rebels atrocities

"I urge President Obama to sign this bill into law and quickly develop a plan to stop Joseph Kony and the LRA from committing further atrocities by bringing a lasting resolution to this conflict," said Senators Russ Feingold who is one of the Congressmen who introduced the bill.
"The removal of Kony and his top leadership would decapitate this group. This legislation ensures US leadership in making that happen. The day can’t come soon enough," said Rep. Ed Royce, a former Africa subcommittee chairman.
The House of Representatives passed the Lord’s Resistance Army Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act of 2009 (S.1067) by voice vote. This vote constitutes the most significant action Congress has taken to date to end the LRA’s long reign of terror and restore lasting peace for the central African communities devastated by war.

http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article35064

[M-A Lagrange]

Obama signs US law to help Uganda fight LRA rebels
May 25th, 2010
by AfricaTimes.
President Barack Obama on Monday signed a law aimed at helping Uganda and its neighbors combat the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a rebel group that has brutalized Central Africa for decades.
Obama called the LRA’s actions — killing, raping, kidnapping children to serve as child soldiers — “an affront to human dignity” that must be stopped.
The Lord’s Resistance Army Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act of 2009 is designed to provide humanitarian aid to Uganda and neighboring states, to support regional efforts to end the conflict and to bring LRA leaders to justice.
“The legislation crystallizes the commitment of the United States to help bring an end to the brutality and destruction that have been a hallmark of the LRA across several countries for two decades,” he said in a statement.
The Ugandan rebel group has killed and abducted people on a regular basis for the last 23 years, from Uganda, Sudan, Central African Republic and Democratic Republic of Congo, Human Rights Watch noted in a report in March.
The U.N. says the LRA killed more than 1,200 people in a 10-month period throughout 2008 and 2009, while Human Rights Watch said a massacre in the remote northeast killed 321 people in December.
The U.S. military’s African Command (Africom) provides communications, logistical and intelligence support for Uganda’s national army in its pursuit of the LRA.
Reuters.

http://www.africa-times-news.com/201...ht-lra-rebels/

Bravo!