JOSEPH KONY ARRESTED IN SUDAN
Reports from Sudan indicates that Kony has just been arrested by Sudanese government in ungoverned territory between Sudan and Egypt called Bir Tawil.
This follows a recent cessation of hostilities between South Sudan and the rebel leader Machar.
The Sudanese information minister Mr. Al-Balal Osman just confirmed to AFP that this operations had been planned for a longer time as a way of bringing regional peace.
Asked if this was part of the current deal in the South Sudan agreement but Mr Osman denied it.
It is believed President Museveni of Uganda put this as one of the precondition for the South Sudan agreement.
Sudan Tribune indicates that Kony has been air lifted and is being detained at one of the military facility in Khartoum.
No repatriation plan has been talked about yet but it’s expected negotiation will start between Sudan and Uganda who would want the war monger to be charged at ICC. More updates will be sent to you as they get availed.
Joseph Rao Kony born July 24, 1961) is the leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a guerrilla group that formerly operated in Uganda.
| While initially purporting to fight against government oppression, the LRA allegedly turned against Kony’s own supporters, supposedly to “purify” the Acholi people and turn Uganda into a theocracy.
Kony proclaims himself the spokesperson of God and a spirit medium and claims he is visited by a multinational host of 13 spirits, including a Chinese phantom. |
Ideologically, the group is a mix of mysticism, Acholi nationalism, and Christian fundamentalism, and claims to be establishing a theocratic state based on the Ten Commandments and local Acholi tradition.
Kony has been accused by government entities of ordering the abduction of children to become child soldiers and sex slaves. 66,000 children became soldiers, and 2 million people were displaced internally from 1986 to 2009.
Kony was indicted in 2005 for war crimes and crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, but he has evaded capture.
Kony has been subject to an Interpol Red Notice at the request of the ICC since 2006. Since the Juba peace talks in 2006, the LRA no longer operate in Uganda.
Sources claim that they are in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the Central African Republic (CAR), or South Sudan. In 2013, Kony was reported to be in poor health, and Michael Diotodia, president of the CAR, claimed he was negotiating with Kony to surrender.
By April 2017, Kony was still at large, but his force was reported to have shrunk to around 100 soldiers, down from a maximum of 3,000 in earlier years. Both the United States and Uganda ended the hunt for Kony and the LRA, believing that the LRA no longer posed a significant security risk to Uganda.