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The Monitor (Kampala)
July 27, 2004
Posted to the web July 27, 2004
Moses Odokonyer & John Muto
Gulu
Northern Uganda bishops and their southern Sudan counterparts have asked the Sudan
government to stop supporting LRA leader Joseph Kony. They made the appeal in a
statement issued at the end of a two-day crossborder workshop at Acholi Inn in Gulu on
Friday.
The LRA have bases in southern Sudan, but they continue to cross the border to wreck
havoc in northern Uganda.
"The governments of neighbouring countries and regional and international bodies
should put sustained pressure on the Government of Sudan to urgently cease support to
the LRA," the bishops said in a joint statement on Friday evening.
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The religious leaders accused the international community of not doing enough to stop
the northern insurgency they described as one of the world's worst crises.
The 4th Division Commander, Col. Nathan Mugisha, asked the bishops to condemn the LRA
terrorism, which he said had denied people peace. "There is no production although we
have fertile land. We have lost a whole generation of child soldiers who have
developed the culture of living by the gun."
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