President Barack Obama has decided to do something about a cult-like rebel group in Central Africa that has terrorized millions with its atrocities.

 

Heading to Uganda are 100 U.S. military advisers instructed to help local forces there, as well as in South Sudan, Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

 

The target of the mission is Ugandan cult leader Joseph Kony and his Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). Kony’s Christian rebel group came together during Uganda’s civil war of the 1980s and 1990s, but was forced to flee to Sudan. It then went into hiding in the jungle regions of northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo and southern Central African Republic.

 

The LRA has been accused of killing or wounding tens of thousands of people, kidnapping many more and displacing millions. It’s known to brainwash young boys and turn them into soldiers and to force young girls into sex slavery.

 

According to Obama, the U.S. advisers will be armed, but will not engage in any fighting against the LRA, unless attacked.

-Noel Brinkerhoff

 

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