The Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda!

The Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) was formed in the late 1980 in Uganda on a claim faithful Christianity. However, the conducts of LRA remain against that religion. Formed most of Acholi people, the LRA however waged wars even against its people.

The Ugandan rebel built itself in northern Uganda and south Sudan in a climate where other African rebel movements grew before the formation of the Sudan Liberation Army (SPLA/SPLM). The LRA was the successor of the Holy Spirit Movement in Uganda.

In that atmosphere of rebellious movements, illiteracy was at the top. Many rebel groups in the area from the Great Lakes to the Horn of Africa used that climate of illiteracy to gather small children and adults as well to build bases in many countries like Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Congo, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia and Djibouti.

However, this statement does not indicate that all rebels' movements in the area are built out of illiteracy.

The rebel was active in northern Uganda for more than twenty years and it launched attacks from south Sudan. When the Sudanese so called peace agreement has signed and the SPLA entered the south they told the Ugandan rebel to get out of southern Sudan as announced at the time.

After the discovery of the Sudanese oil, the Ugandan rebel infiltrated the area of eastern Equatoria in Sudan. The military religious dictatorial regime of Sudan used the LRA as an arm to crush the SPLA out of the area and when the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in Sudan signed, the LRA moved to the Democratic republic of Congo (DRC) in 2005.

The Ugandan army replied to the attacks led by the LRA in northern Uganda many times and succeeded in expelling it out of Uganda lately in September 2009. However, some reports warned that the Ugandan rebel is moving now to find grounds in the troubled Darfur region in Sudan.

Violent attacks by the Ugandan army in the north and parts of the east led many people to flee the aria. Displaced people became exhausted and the LRA forced many of them to join the rebel and killed others.

It is so difficult in these areas to identify who is the Sudanese or the Ugandan or the Congolese! However, only the people of the area know who is who.

In January 2005, the ICC issued warrants of arrests against Joseph Kony, the Commander-in-Chief of the Lord's Resistance Army, Vincent Otti, the Vice Chairman and Second in Command, Okot Odhiambo, Deputy Army Commander and Dominic Ongwen, Brigade Commander of the Sinia Brigade.

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