Joseph Kony

What comes to your mind when you think about the LRA, child soldiers or Joseph Kony? These three subjects include a very horrible group, combining destruction, violation, and terrorization. These acts of harm are done to many people in Africa, especially in the Democratic Republic of Congo. By reading this paper one will find out that every day, kids in the Democratic republic of Congo are being kidnapped by Joseph Kony and his army, the LRA (lord’s resistance army). Initially, there was no such militia called LRA against the Ugandan government. On the contrary, it was the Ugandan government army who operated under the name NRA National Resistance Army before they changed their name to UPDF (Uganda People's Defense Force). They terrorized the civilians by burning homes, looting livestock, killings, rapes, spreading HIV disease, genocide. The Ugandan armies were also the first to recruit children, and they continued to do so unabated. In June 2006, Radhika Coomaraswamy, the UN's special representative for children, found more than 5000 children recruited in the Ugandan government army. The insurgency by the government's NRA led to the formation of the rebel group called the Lord's Resistance Army. Ideologically, LRA believe in African mysticism, Christian fundamentalism, and Islam. According to former LRA fighters, Kony’s stated goal is to overthrow President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda and create a state based on Kony’s interpretation of the biblical Ten Commandments. Since the LRA no longer operates in Uganda, the group’s current political goals are not clear. Kony’s current tactics appear solely aimed at ensuring his and other senior leaders’ survival. This group is led by Joseph Kony, who is believed by the group that he possesses godly powers (U.S. Department of State). As mentioned, Kony is the leader of the LRA, and has gone undetected since the very formation of the LRA in the early 1990’s. Kony was born in 1961 in Odek, a village east of