Uganda Urged to Prosecute Top LRA Leader

Armed convoy: The government has been urged to prosecute the top-ranking LRA commander who was captured in an ambush by Ugandan troops.

Photo: On the hunt for Kony. A UN armed convoy on the road between Faradje and Dungu in the north eastern DRC.

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LRA soldiers in Sudan, April 2007: Uganda People's Defence Forces said Caesar Achellam, a major general in Joseph Kony's outfit of about 200 fighters, had been captured in an ambush along the banks of the River Mbou in neighbouring Central African Republic.