Nairobi, Kenya, 03/21 - Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni Monday sought the combined help of the Sudanese government, the United Nations and DR Congo to help hunt down the rebel Lord`s Resistance Army (LRA) leader Joseph Kony.
"We should use cooperation to decimate this group," Museveni, who recently won a controversial third term vote, said in an address during a regional summit of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD).
Uganda wants help from DR Congo to help track down Kony who, Museveni said, recently fled to the Garamba National Park of Congo-Kinshasa, an area under the control of UN Forces and the Kinshasa government.
Uganda, the semi-autonomous government of southern Sudan and the Government of Sudan early last year declared joint patrols against the Northern Uganda insurgent leader`s group.
The LRA has been fighting a bush war against the Kampala regime for nearly two decades that has seen thousands raped, killed and maimed in northern Uganda. Some 1.6 million others have been internally displaced by the fighting.
Last year the International Criminal Court indicted five of the group`s leaders, including the elusive Kony, on war crimes charges.
The Ugandan leader called for closer regional cooperation to enable his government uproot the insurgents, noting that earlier cooperation with other forces had resulted in debilitating the rebel group.
"We should use cooperation to decimate this group," Museveni, who recently won a controversial third term vote, said in an address during a regional summit of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD).
Uganda wants help from DR Congo to help track down Kony who, Museveni said, recently fled to the Garamba National Park of Congo-Kinshasa, an area under the control of UN Forces and the Kinshasa government.
Uganda, the semi-autonomous government of southern Sudan and the Government of Sudan early last year declared joint patrols against the Northern Uganda insurgent leader`s group.
The LRA has been fighting a bush war against the Kampala regime for nearly two decades that has seen thousands raped, killed and maimed in northern Uganda. Some 1.6 million others have been internally displaced by the fighting.
Last year the International Criminal Court indicted five of the group`s leaders, including the elusive Kony, on war crimes charges.
The Ugandan leader called for closer regional cooperation to enable his government uproot the insurgents, noting that earlier cooperation with other forces had resulted in debilitating the rebel group.
Meanwhile in Kampala in what can only be described as a contradiction by the NEW Vision Museveni mouth piece
Museveni meets US Senator and protrays the impression that the war with the so called rebels is now over....read on..
Uganda: Museveni Meets Senator
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New Vision (Kampala)
March 21, 2006
Posted to the web March 21, 2006
Posted to the web March 21, 2006
Kampala
PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has met Senator James Inhofe, the chairman of the environment and public works committee of the US Senate.
Milton
Olupot
reports Inhofe, a member of the Arms Service Committee of the Senate, flanked by his adviser on African affairs Mark Powrs, on Sunday met Museveni at State House Nakasero, and discussed the humanitarian situation in northern Uganda.
Inhofe congratulated Museveni upon his re-election to the presidency.
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They discussed how America could contribute to the resettlement programme in the north due to begin.
Thousands of people currently living in camps are expected to return to their homes as the LRA war comes to an end.
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