Uganda LRA Terrorists extend reach with new attacks
The Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) uses terror tactics, such as rape, torture, and kidnapping. They target civilians while knowing they are civilians purposefully, so they are terrorists. They are also an extremist cult of Christians who use twisted religion to justify their terror as they have for years.
Recent attacks by Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance Army show the sect extending its reach to vulnerable communities in the north of Central African Republic close to the border with Sudan and Chad, officials said.
The rebel group led by Joseph Kony has claimed around 2,000 lives in a series of brutal attacks across the region in the past two years and abducted thousands for use as child soldiers or sex slaves, human rights workers estimate.
The United States is due to make proposals next month for helping the countries of the mineral-producing central African region combat the LRA after President Barack Obama labelled the group an “affront to