Kony Attacks Sudan
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New Vision (Kampala)
April 30, 2005
Posted to the web May 2, 2005
Anne Mugisa
Kampala
THE Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) leader Joseph Kony is abducting Sudanese children and conscripting them into his army after being beaten in Uganda, religious leaders have said.
Members of the Inter-Faith Action for Peace told journalists in Kampala on Wednesday that Kony had turned his wrath on Sudanese children, which is likely to perpetuate the northern conflict.
The Christian, Baha'i, Hindu and Muslim representatives had just returned from an inter-faith continental peace summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, which attracted participants from Brazil, Canada, Iceland, Finland, France, Germany, Iraq and the US.
UPDF spokesman Maj. Shaban Bantariza yesterday said he had not heard about the development, but said Kony had gone back to his strongholds, from where he had been dislodged. He said Sudanese government troops pushed the LRA from Juba, forcing them to flee to Nisitu, Lubangatek and Bin Rwot.
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"That is where we beat them in 2002 and that is where they had their big camps then. We will go for them," Bantariza said.
Meanwhile, the LRA ambushed and killed nine people, who were travelling in a convoy in southern Sudan, a minister in the regional southern Sudan government said.
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