How old were these children?
It would be interesting to understand what they were doing in Gulu. Do they live among the locals or do they often come for medical treatments and shopping in Gulu?
Seems to me like this may not have been the first business trip.
Last time around were three wives.
What bloody flocks!!!
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>From: "Elum aniap Godfrey Ayoo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>Subject: [Ugandacom] GULU: MILITARY ARRESTS 17 WIVES OF LRA REBEL GROUP FOUNDER
>Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 23:27:42 +0200
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> UGANDA 30/9/2003 19:59
> GULU: MILITARY ARRESTS 17 WIVES OF LRA REBEL GROUP FOUNDER
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> Seventeen of the over eighty wives of Joseph Kony, founder of the LRA (lord's Resistance Army) rebel movement causing death and destruction for over 17 years in North Uganda, were arrested yesterday. As reported by MISNA sources, along with the women the Ugandan soldiers also detained 14 children, all sons and daughters of Kony. According to the military commander of the Gulu district, Padi Ankunda, Kony's wives - all armed and able combatants - can be considered real 'veterans' of the movement, tied to the LRA for many years. The group of 'Olum' (grass - as the rebels are called by the people) was intercepted in Cwere, around 14km east of Gulu (administrative centre of the homonymous northern Ugandan district) by a mobile patrol of Kampala forces. Commander Ankunda did not provide ulterior details on the circumstances of their arrest, only indicating that the large group of rebels was headed by some key figures of the movement. The news was learned with curio
sity and concern in Gulu, given that the rebels normally avoid nearing the city, closely controlled by the military. Since 1986 the LRA rebels, headed by their leader Joseph Kony, have been devastating the northern Ugandan districts: in 17 years of terror they tortured and killed tens of thousands of people (at least 100-thousand victims), abducting over 20-thousand children, reduced to slavery or forcedly enrolled in the rebel lines.
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>"And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall march ahead. We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, 'When will you be satisfied?' We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities (.) No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream". (Martin Luther King, 1964 Nobel Peace prize laureate, assassinated for his struggle)
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