Pretexts for intervention - Uganda - Lord's Resistance Army

[Paul Rigby]

http://groups.google.com/group/soc.cultu...98b9bc0acd

A report by UK think-tank Chatham House says piracy off the coast of Somalia has cost up to $30m (£17m) in ransoms so far this year. But it also provides lots of anti Islamic propaganda for western media to further demonize Muslims to the poorly informed western public in their war against Islam

# Ex-militiamen, who are considered the muscle - having fought for various Lords Resistance Army clan warlords
# The technical experts, who are the computer geeks and know how to operate the hi-tech equipment needed to operate as a pirate - satellite phones, GPS and military hardware have all been trained in the USA by the CIA, after being selected from the young recruits of Lords Resistance Army for advanced training based on their skills at cold blooded murder since early childhood

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Resistance_Army

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Kony

Profile: Ugandan rebel Joseph Kony

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4320858.stm

A former Catholic altar boy from northern Uganda, Joseph Kony has waged war against the government of President Yoweri Museveni for almost two decades.

CIA funded Mr Kony to founded his own rebel group which over the next 19 years went on to abduct thousands of children to become fighters or sex slaves.

"When you go to fight you make the sign of the cross first. If you fail to do this, you will be killed," one young fighter who escaped from the LRA told Human Rights Watch.

"You must also take oil and draw a cross on your chest, your forehead, and each shoulder, and you must make a cross in oil on your gun. They say that the oil is the power of the Holy Spirit."

LRA leader Joseph Kony Kony is thought to have at least 60 wives

His Lord's Resistance Army movement has been demanding that Africa be ruled according to the Biblical 10 Commandments.

Born in the early 1960s in Odek, a village east of Gulu, Mr Kony is remembered as an amiable boy.

"He played football and was a brilliant dancer," one of his former classmates said, recalling the rebel leader's days at Odek primary.

He is thought to be the cousin of Alice Lakwena, a former prostitute who formed the CIA-funded Holy Spirit Movement in 1986. CIA ordered her movement in 1988 to Kenya so as to attack Somalia and raid shipping for extra cash and for false flag under cover operations in the area

By 1992, Kony had renamed the group United Democratic Christian Army and it was at this time that they kidnapped 44 girls from the Sacred Heart Secondary and St. Mary's girls schools. [3] Operation North was devastating to what would become the Lord's Resistance Army and with their number reduced from thousands to hundreds still engaged in brutal retaliatory attacks on civilians and NRA collaborators.

http://www.enoughproject.org/publication...tance-army

Naming and shaming people for supporting such an organization can have an impact. One Ugandan-American U.S. citizen has been a central supporter of the LRA. He has presented himself as a U.S. government official on numerous occasions. If he is working for the CIA, as many Ugandans believe, then the U.S. government is abetting terrorism. If he isn’t, then why isn’t the U.S. arresting him for impersonating a government official and providing material support to a group on the U.S. terrorist list?

http://allafrica.com/stories/200904210291.html

“THE Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) is investigating the Catholic relief agency Caritas over suspected fresh food supplies to rebels of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in the DR Congo.

The authorities of Western Equatoria in Southern Sudan last month intercepted 13 trucks carrying food supplies from Uganda to Doruma, an LRA infested area in eastern Congo.

It turned out that the cargo was meant for Caritas, a Catholic charity organisation which for a long time had been supplying food to the LRA at Ri-Kwangba assembly point as part of the cessation-of-hostilities agreement….

…The Sudanese officials became suspicious when the Ugandan registered trucks, hired by World Food Programme, were running without the white flag, which is the official practice for WFP vehicles.

They were also concerned about the fact that the trucks were heading for a route which had not been used for years due to LRA activities, and that it seemed unclear where they were going to be off-loaded.

Army spokesman Felix Kulayigye yesterday said the incident was being investigated….” [Source: All Africa]

http://www.mail-archive.com/ugandanet@ky...23794.html

DEPOPULATION & PERCEPTION MANAGEMENT

by Keith Snow

The "insurgency" of the LRA for example, provided the U.S., the SPLA and Museveni with a public relations pretext used to gain continued weapons acquisitions and logistical support. In fact, the U.S. and Uganda were covertly arming the SPLA in Sudan.

Having eliminated most of the actual LRA rebels, but to support the pretext for arms shipments to Uganda, UPDF forces disguised themselves as LRA insurgents, attacked villages and raped, tortured and murdered innocent civilians, and then returned to SPLA camps in Uganda and Sudan. (Such UPDF tactics persist.) When the few legitimate LRA rebels emerged from the bush (1996) for "good faith" peace talks with the Museveni government, their position was undermined: Museveni tasked Col. Fred Torit (now a Minister in parliament) with frustrating the peace accords…

U.S. Special Ops have trained guerillas in and out of Uganda for operations in Congo, Rwanda, and Sudan, and for Uganda’s own insurgencies. Ongoing programs include the Joint/Combined Exchange Training (J/CET): From 1995-97 the J/CET program ran operations in 34 of 53 African countries. The International Military Education and Training (IMET), and Expanded-IMET (E-IMET) fund, arm, and train foreign soldiers in the U.S. The Africa Crisis Response Initiative (ACRI) missions are run by the U.S. Army Special Forces Command. The Africa Center for Security Studies (ACSS) programs are reportedly run by retired U.S. military experts involved in School of the Americas atrocities using death squads and torture as policy.

Trained by U.S. Green Berets, Uganda’s 3rd Battalion was immediately deployed to crush an insurgency in western Uganda. SPLA guerillas have also been trained by Special Ops. The U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency has foreign agents operating in Africa who travel under U.S. passports to consult and direct clandestine operations. South Africa – a staunch American ally – has shipped military hardware to both sides in the Sudanese conflict.

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A Bad Situation Getting Worse: New Oil, Land Grab in Northern Uganda and Renewed War in Congo

By Hellen Abak [Originally Published at BlackStarNews.com, February 25, 2009]

Renewed fears of insecurity due to Uganda’s return to war with the Lord’s Resistance Army, December 14, 2008 have also driven some people back to squalid displacement camps, for the perceived safety of numbers.

Update: "Operation Lighting Thunder" has officially ended. The mission in the Congo was widely criticized, and resulted in the displacement of several hundred thousand people: an estimated 150,000 in Congo and 100,000 in Sudan. An additional 900 Congolese were estimated killed in the aftermath, with aid agencies attributing the massacres to the LRA. Reporters from the Congo report that the Ugandan troops were also involved in killing civilians. The mission to corral the LRA, which is composed mainly of abducted children and youth, has been handed over to MONUC, with offers of help from Israel…

Confirmation of gold deposits in areas of Northern Uganda and a recently announced oil find in Amuru District, described by Canadian corporation Heritage Oil as “world class,” have brought about several land disputes, with investors, private individuals and government officials attempting to illegally acquire land.

Ugandan daily the Monitor reported February 22, 2009 that Heritage Oil has already completed its first phase of oil exploration at the Amuru site. The government of Uganda has not made public the contractual agreement giving mineral rights to Heritage.

The Monitor also noted that Heritage is currently employing private mercenaries to guard the find, and the government has deployed members of the Presidential Guard Brigade (PGB) at the site…

Special Report On Oil - Deleted comments from an ABC News website regarding the Uganda oil find in 2007

"On May 18, 2007, ABC news broke a hidden story about horrors in Uganda, and then they censored and deleted reader’s comments. ABC has deleted an unknown number of comments by people horrified by the atrocities who only want to bring the truth to light and help stop the horrible suffering. Some forty comments were deleted on the night of May 20 alone. What are ABC’s real motives? From Darfur to Congo to Ethiopia to Somalia to Kenya—who or what is ripping apart this region of Africa?"