(International Justice Monitor) – Following a one-month break, Bosco Ntaganda has resumed testimony in his own defense at the International Criminal Court (ICC), denying knowledge of the existence of child soldiers among the Congolese militia forces trained by the Uganda government. Under cross-examination by prosecution lawyer Nicole Samson, Ntaganda stated that Ugandan authorities were in charge […]
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(PRI) – No one seems to remember what the boy’s real name was. But his cousin, Lily Atong, remembers him well. When she talks about him, she gets a distant, wistful look in her eyes. They grew up together, here in this village in northern Uganda. The boy was chubby, she says with a smile. Link
(PRI) – When he was 11, a group of rebel soldiers came into Kenneth Banya’s village. They told Kenneth that they were lost, and they asked if he could show them the way out of town. Kenneth’s father said no, he can’t give you directions. Kenneth’s father knew exactly how that would end. For more than […]
(Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Children whose mothers were raped by rebels in Uganda say war was better than peace because they felt a greater sense of family cohesion and status during the conflict compared to the violence, stigma and rejection they face in peacetime, a study showed. Researchers from Canada’s McGill University interviewed 60 children born […]
(The Guardian) – Walking barefoot, Dominic Ongwen took a westerly course across the tropical savanna in the Central African Republic where it meets the border of Sudan. The Ugandan rebel leader had been on the run for days from Joseph Kony, the notoriously elusive chief of Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). After 30 years as a […]
(Deutsche Welle) – US military operations against the Lord’s Resistance Army in central Africa are “coming to an end,” a top American general said on Friday, even though its brutal leader Joseph Kony has not been captured. “This operation, although not achieving the ability to get to Kony himself, has essentially taken that group off the battlefield,” […]
(BBC) – Uganda has about 2,500 soldiers stationed in the Central African Republic (CAR). The mission, which began in 2009, aims to hunt down Joseph Kony and members of his Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). But now the Ugandan army is being accused of committing sexual crimes similar to those carried out by the group it’s meant […]
