Uganda's brutal Lord's Resistance Army, past and present
published :
6 May 2021 at 17:45
A memorial for victims of of an LRA massacre in Lukodi, Uganda
KAMPALA - One of Africa's longest-surviving rebel groups, the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) has terrorised parts of central Africa for 35 years.
Its leaders are violent pariahs and fugitives from international justice, who were once hunted by US special forces and African armies.
Founder Joseph Kony remains on the run but other key commanders have died or turned themselves in, among them Dominic Ongwen who was sentenced to 25 years in jail on Thursday for war crimes and crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague.