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Uganda's LRA's Leader Joseph Kony - "global terrorist" |
THE United States government has put new sanctions on Joseph Kony. This follows the slow pace at which the peace talks have taken. The US Treasury Department said it had added Kony to its list of “specially designated global terrorists,” which carries financial and other penalties.
The LRA is already considered a terrorist group by the US, but there
had been no sanctions applied to Kony. His brutal rebellion has
devastated the North. The LRA is accused of atrocities that include
rape, abduction and conscription of child soldiers, massacre, deadly
raids or villages, amputation of civilians and torching of huts.
Kony and his deputies Okot Odhiambo and Dominic Ongwen, have been
indicted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes and crimes
against humanity and arrest warrants were issued against them in 2005.
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