Tag: Lord’s Resistance Army

Lord’s Resistance Army Weblog

This is my weblog devoted to covering developments related to the Lord’s Resistance Army.

The Lord’s Resistance Army is a rebel group based in Sudan that carries out attacks aimed at destabilizing the government of Uganda.

The LRA is similar in many ways to groups like the Khmer Rouge.

First, It engages in wholesale brutality including rape, targeted assassinations, maiming, and, on the side, selling children into slavery.

Second, it relies on the kidnapping and brainwashing of children to maintain its ranks — the LRA has kidnapped tens of thousands of children over the past decade, generally selling the girls into slavery and brainwashing the boys to become LRA fighters.

Finally, as its name might suggest, the LRA is also drive by a quasi-religious doctrine, that mixes Christianity, African animism and witchcraft into the mix.

Cannabilism Accusation Against Congolese Rebels

The Associated Press is reporting that a United Nations human rights team will report that Congolese Liberation Movement and the Congolese Rally for Democracy-National used rape and cannabilism to pacify civilians in the round robin of carnage that is the Congo these days (well for the last 25 years or so). According to the AP,

“The team interviewed victims as well as witnesses of atrocities who spoke of cases of wholesale rape, of looting … and also cases of forced cannibalism,” said Patricia Tome, the U.N. spokeswoman in the Congo.

. . .

Tome said the investigators sought out Pygmies, who went deep in hiding in the forests there.

She did not elaborate. However, a Catholic cleric in the province, Monsignor Melchisedec Sikuli Paluku, told The Associated Press that rebels forced the Pygmies and others to eat human flesh. Some Pygmies taken prisoner even were forced to eat parts of their own bodies, he said.

Just what the world needs — Lord’s Resistance Army style insanity spreading to other corners of Africa.

Source:

Congolese tell U.N. investigators of cannibalism, rapes by rebels. The Associated Press, January 11, 2003.