The Security Council, and the Congolese and Ugandan Defense Ministers said that the Ugandan Army needs to launch this new military offensive in Congo and the Central African Republic because the LRA keeps raping and killing civilians there, though the UN Mapping Report released on October 1st, 2010, documents the Ugandan Army's own civilian massacres, mass rapes, and other sexual atrocities in Congo. Michael Kirkpatrick, a Black Star News contributor who has traveled back and forth to Uganda and its Acholi region frequently since 1998, says that Joseph Kony and the Lord's Resistance Army are always the most convenient excuse for military intervention. |
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Ann Garrison is an independent journalist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 2014, she received the Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza Democracy and Peace Prize for her reporting on conflict in the African Great Lakes region. She can be reached (more...)