Uganda: Will American Hand Finally Deliver Kony?

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If you asked Gen Ham Carter, commander of the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), he will tell you that all evil in this world "exists in the person of Joseph Kony". On July 19, Gen Ham told Ugandan journalists at AFRICOM's Stuttgart headquarters in Germany that he would never shed a tear for Kony, no matter how sad his death. Given the atrocities Kony's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) has committed against the people of northern Uganda and the Great Lakes region, the American General said the rebel leader deserved no one's compassion.

For the past 24 years, Kony's rag-tag rebels have deprived women of beauty and dignity; cutting off breasts, lips, ears, arms, etc; abducting children, turning them into sex slaves and child soldiers. The rebels have decimated villages, driving communities into refugee camps and traumatizing entire generations of (especially) Northern Uganda's people.

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