The Lord’s Resistance Army‚ or LRA‚ is a rebel group run in central Africa by Joseph Kony. The LRA originated in Northern Uganda in 1980 as a religious movement called the Holy Spirit Movement‚ which was led by Alice Lakwena‚ who claimed that God had told her to overthrow the Ugandan government. (www.warchild.org.uk/issues/the-lords-resistance-army) The Ugandan government had been‚ at the time of the order‚ treating the Acholi people of the North unfairly. The movement quickly drew large amounts
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and raised a Christian. Now he is one of the most vilified rebel leaders on the planet. Being raised a Christian‚ he wanted everybody to be a Christian. So‚ in 1987 he formed a group called the Lord Resistance Army (LRA)‚ which has been at war with the Ugandan government ever since. What Kony and his rebel army do‚ is take boys and girls away from their parents in the night. The boys are forced to kill their parents‚ so they have no home to go to. The girls on the other hand are forced to be his own
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The Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) is a rebellion group which was originally formed against President Yoweri to stop oppression in north Uganda. Now the LRA is a rebel group who focuses on self-preservation by stealing supplies and abducting children from towns and villages to fill the ranks in its “army.” The LRA is led by Joseph Kony‚ who took over as leader when Alice Lakwena was exiled. The Ugandan government has been involved in trying to stop this group with the help of Democratic Republic of
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Boko Haram and Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army have their differences. One difference is their original intentions. Boko Haram was not originally a violent group‚ according to “Bringers of Sorrow; Boko Haram”‚ by Mike Smith‚ “In its early days the group emphasised teaching rather than killing. Yet it took a radical‚ violent turn soon after Yusuf’s [Boko Haram’s original leader] brutal death.” (1). Little is known about their intent since they haven’t exactly publicized it (“Bringers of Sorrow;
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wasn’t the last. Genocide is often thought of as something of the past‚ and that the world learned its lesson after World War II. Unfortunately though‚ not only has genocide continued‚ but there currently is one unfolding in Uganda. The Lord’s Resistance Army‚ made up of rebels trying to overthrow the government‚ is mimicking the Nazis in many ways‚ and their leader Joseph Kony is following in the footsteps of Hitler. There are many similarities that link Nazi Germany with today’s situation in northern
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NAME: OGUTI SEBESTIAN OSWIN INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS STUDIES-IIS JILIN UNIVERSITY-CHINA TOPIC: A liberation movement in Uganda: a case of the Lord Resistance Movement/Army (LRM/A) 1986 – 2006. Abstract This paper is set within the theory of sociology of learning and social movement frame work. It will examine documents/reports from government and non governmental organizations‚ personal experience and observation as a resident of a geographical space where
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If 1‚500 kids in Canada are taken every year‚ it would be all over the news. But that’s not the case in Uganda. For over the past 20 years 30‚000 boys and girls have been abducted and used as child soldiers by a rebel group called the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda ("Military use of children - Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia"‚ n.d.). Child soldiers are used as porters‚ slaves‚ fighters and worse for sexual purposes. Why is it that if children in Uganda are abducted it can go on for over 20 years
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in order to get him arrested. Joseph Kony is a military leader in Uganda. He is indicted war criminal and the international criminal court fugitive. Joseph Kony is responsible for kidnapping children and using young boys as fighters for the Lord Resistance Army and young girls as sex slaves and wives for the commanders. He forces these children to kill their parents and neighbors so that they won’t have a home to return to. In order to bring awareness and recognition to this movement‚ viewers were
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helicopters and cars‚ and the Army National Guard may even be called in. Everything is put into operation to bring a child home to its family. At the same time‚ they go after the abductor to put him or her behind bars‚ so he or she cannot harm any other child. In contrast‚ in another part of the world‚ 30‚000 children have been abducted in the past 18 years in Uganda. Many families have lost at least one child‚ or their villages have been attacked and destroyed by an army of abducted children known
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by Jason Russel and Invisible Children. He is the most known offender for use of child soldiers since 1986. In 1987‚ Joseph Kony formed the Lord’s Resistance Army‚ L.R.A. The L.R.A started off as a resistance army to overthrow the Uganda government. Joseph Kony took control of the L.R.A and decided to focus more on gaining strength. The army began to massacre villages to capture the child able to carry and shoot guns. The other villagers were brutally tortured by getting there ears‚ lips
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