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LRA terminate negotiating team

January 10, 2009 (PARIS) – A statement purporting to come from the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), the cultic guerrilla force that negotiated during two years with Kampala without siging the final peace deal, announced the immediate termination of its negotiating team.

LRA negotiator David Nyekorach-Matsanga
LRA negotiator David Nyekorach-Matsanga
The LRA ended all contacts with David Matsanga, Miss Abalo and Justine Labeja. Matsanga had already once before been dismissed by LRA leader Joseph Kony before allowing him to resume his activities.

Rebel leaders of the group have drawn support from the aggrieved ethnic Acholis of northern Uganda, but have primarily preyed on this ethnic group as well, abducting children and making them kill their families.

Matsanga had even previously in July 2008 been accused of plotting Kony’s death. The UK-based negotiator was arrested in South Sudan in April 2008 carrying a letter from Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni to Kony and $20,000.

It is not clear that Matsanga would currently have any ease in contacting Kony at this point anyway. Kony’s forces have been driven to part of Garamba National Park in northeastern DR Congo, where they were attacked in late December.

The assault, carried out by air and with the coordination of Uganda, South Sudan and DR Congo, resulted in reprisals across Congo and into Western Equatoria of Sudan.

The rebel fighters are low on ammunition and are not all armed with firearms, but they are specialists in jungle warfare and many have been fighting for very long.

The supposedly LRA statement noted, that the negotiators’ removal “means they no longer speak for LRA, or peace talk negotiating delegates and must not engage in any form of negotiations.”

“The decision was reached in support for peaceful end to the conflicts in Uganda and the Great lakes Region,” claimed the text.

“This ruling is also communicated to United Nations, African Union, Non-governmental Organisations, UN appointed delegate Mr Chissano, President Joseph Kabila Republic du Congo, President of Republic of Kenya, Government of Southern Sudan President Kiir, President of Central African Republic, Uganda Government and international observers.”

(ST)

11 Comments

  • Martin
    Martin

    LRA terminate negotiating team
    Look what happened again!!

    Joseph Kony usually killed or sacked his delegation he personally chosen to negotiate the peace with Ugandan goverment.

    He is not accepting any peace due to his own life being threatened by an International Criminal Court. His war is now for his own life rather for the people of Northern Uganda. I wondered how the smart people like David Matsanga follow such unvisionary leader! Joseph has proved to be a criminal and those who joined him for right cause should realize and abandoned this uneducated man.

    I blamed the South Sudan Vice President Dr. Riek Machar who wasted his money and time in negotiating unfruitful peace for two years. What a waste? The two years spent by Dr. Riek persuading Joseph Kony to accept the peace with Uganda goverment would have been fruitful if Riek has used them to help Sudanese in one way or another.

    What on earth people can make such a peace. The LRA warfare has been misunderstood for so long. It should be considered as an international war because LRA started killing the Sudanese people since its inception and not the Ugandans. The LRA rebel never captured any village or a small town from Ugandan government during its struggle over 22 years. How a guerrilla war can be effective if the leader and his army stay in exile (staying in another country)?

    Joseph is fighting the civilians from Uganda and South Sudan like, and I think he has no any objectives at all.

    Solution, he must be kick out from Southern Sudan by force.

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  • cansellor
    cansellor

    LRA terminate negotiating team
    WOW!! WOW!!

    It seem to be a bad news especially to miss Logic boy and the rest of Equatorian people that Lord Resistant Army LRA terminate theirs peace negotiation effort predicted by Equatorian to be the only hopefull way to subdue LRA humiliation and Brutality again Equatorian people. Short while ago I ask madam Logic that now LRA terminate peace negotiation and declared war, what do you think to be the solution? And She said, There ‘s no other way around unless our brothers Dinkas sacrifies theirs life once more to protecct Equatoria like the way they did it in the past from mundukuru. And I said what about this statements from you and your people that you don’t like dinka people living in Equatoria?? and she said, only when nothing appeared to be a threat to the community, something like war and so on. And I said, we are not stupid at this time to be use for war and then korokoro after war, never!

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  • The Jungle fire
    The Jungle fire

    LRA terminate negotiating team
    Why LRA gorilla are distroying our people,they are stupid,just living in the bush in many years for nothings. Kony himself is not educated and how comes for him to rule Uganda. untaught kony have to remains in the bush while eating monkeys meat and others vegetable staff in the bush. Fuck Him, He killed my father, lets God Keeep watching his feet.One day he will be gun down belive me. The blood of innocent people still around him.

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