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| August 4, 2009 |
Who is providing weapons and supplies to the LRA?
For more than two decades the fearsome Lord's Resistance Army and their leader Joseph Kony have moved through dense forests killing and mutilating civilians, and stealing children from remote villages in the Central African Republic, northern Congo and southern Sudan. They have kidnapped at least 20,000 children to use as sex slaves, to replenish their fighting force or to use as porters. As part of their initiation, the children are often required to kill their own parents. When they are too weak to walk, they are killed or left in the bush to die. Captives have had their noses, lips, and/or ears cut off.According to several reliable sources, the LRA receives supplies including sat phones, weapons and ammunition from northern Sudanese planes on 'secret' air strips ( one is in South Sudan, between Yambio and Maridi) or via air drops. One witness saw a plane which had been repainted white and it bore the letters 'UN'. Over the last 10 months or so the LRA have resurfaced in the NE part of DRC. No one knows the magnitude of the displacement but refugees are flowing into Sudan.
There is testimony from LRA abductees who managed to escape They saw air-drops taking place in a mountainous area called Karago, west of the town of Aba. The LRA are currently active in Ezo and Tamburi areas of Sudan.
Even I know this. So how can it be that Kony has not been apprehended.
Southern Sudanese officials have openly said that they believe that Khartoum continues to support the LRA.