Ugandan rebel fails to turn up for peace deal signing

[struggle4progress]

Source: AFP

KAMPALA (AFP) — Rebel supremo Joseph Kony failed to turn up Saturday to sign an overdue peace agreement with Kampala aimed at ending Uganda's two-decade-long civil war in the north, an official said.

A signing ceremony was to be held in Ri-Kwangba, a jungle town in southern Sudan, for the Lord's Resistance Army leader to ink the deal finalised in April and already signed by Uganda's government.

"I can tell you that they have not met Kony yet," army spokesman Major Paddy Ankunda told AFP at around 1500 GMT. "It is getting dark now and our people cannot be out there once it is dark."

A group of Ugandan government officials, as well as religious and cultural leaders from northern Uganda -- the region most affect by the civil war -- travelled to Ri-Kwangba hoping Kony would turn up to sign the peace agreement ...

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[Alamuti Lotus]

1. "the fundamentalist Christian terrorist leader"

words seem to be lacking from the report..

[struggle4progress]

2. It is not entirely clear how to classify what theological views might be associated with the LRA

Resistance Army Leader in Kenya after 'Holy War'
Nov. 10, 2005
by Eric Westervelt
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5010520


The Lord’s Resistance Army and the International Criminal Court
Written by Chad Marzen
Tuesday, 17 October 2006
... Joseph Kony .. formed the Lord’s Resistance Army in 1987 ... Kony’s beliefs have been described as a conglomeration of an “eclectic mix of Christianity, Islam, and African witchcraft” ... http://davisiaj.com/content/view/261/95/