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Lord's Resistance Army | |
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Dates of operation | 1987–present |
Motives | Establishment of a theocratic state in Uganda |
Headquarters | Believed to be South Sudan or Central African Republic (2014) |
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Ideology | Christian nationalism Dominion theology |
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Opponents | Uganda South Sudan Democratic Republic of the Congo Central African Republic U.N. Peacekeepers United States France Union of Democratic Forces for Unity[8] Wagner Group (since April 2024)[9] |
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The Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) is a Christian extremist organization operating in Central Africa and East Africa. Its origins were in the Ugandan insurgency (1986–1994) against President Yoweri Museveni during which Joseph Rao Kony founded the LRA in 1987.
The group has been in northern Uganda, South Sudan, Sudan, the Central African Republic, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.[11] Its stated goal includes the establishment of multi-party democracy[12] in a Uganda bound by the Ten Commandments.[13][14]
The LRA was listed as a terrorist group by the United States,[15] but it has since been removed from the list of designated active terrorist groups. It has been accused of widespread human rights violations, including murder, abduction, mutilation, child sex slavery, and recruitment of child soldiers.[16][17]
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