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Africa Subsaharan
Ugandan President says army attacks on LRA rebels successful
2008-12-24
(SomaliNet) Monday attacks on the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) were successful, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said.

Meanwhile, a rebel spokesperson said the leadership was still intact and wanted to resume peace talks.
Got cooperative all of a sudden, did they ...
Regional military action by forces from Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo and south Sudan was launched on 14 December against an LRA hideout in northeastern DR Congo, but the rebel chief Joseph Kony escaped. "It was a very successful operation... we attacked Kony's main camp and devastated it," Museveni told reporters. "Kony only understands one language - the language of the gun."

"I don't think that it was ever correct to beg Kony for peace as some groups were doing. We had no other option but to act against these criminal acts."

The Ugandan leader said Kony had eavesdropped on military radio communications and escaped just before the raids began.
Better comm security next time guys ...
The offensive was launched after the rebel leader repeatedly refused to sign a final peace agreement with the Kampala government.

But LRA spokesperson David Nyekorach Matsanga said Kony had called for the end of the offensive and a resumption of peace talks. "Today I got instructions from general Joseph Kony telling me to inform the world that he wants military action to be halted so that we can open a new chapter in our country because the attacks will escalate the conflict," Matsanga told AFP.

He added that "the entire LRA high command is intact".

Kony cites International Criminal Court arrest warrants against him and his lieutenants as reasons for not signing the peace accord finalised in April.

Tens of thousands of people have been killed and nearly two million displaced in two decades of fighting between the Ugandan government and the LRA, which is notorious for abductions of children to be used as soldiers and sex slaves.
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