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"but still, like in Congo, like in Sudan, like it was in Rwanda, Liberia and Sierra Leone, it is only Africans killing Africans and no one cares, after all, the world stand still and has been inactive for the most part in regards to Africa."

The Rescue of Joseph Kony's Child Soldiers (Updated with video interview with Ishmael Beah)
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UPDATE: Here's an amazing video interview with Ishmael Beah, child soldier from Sierra Leone, on "The Hour." He's remarkable in his insights, his compassion, and his clarity. This is 10 minutes of pure gold. Please take the time to view it, since he covers every issue with greatness of heart and mind. "There's nothing glamorous about violence....

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SIDE NOTE:

OK this is a very touchy subject for me... what this blog will show are the horrors going on in Uganda, and with these young children and all of Africa, and the little spoken of true cause and real reasons for all the fighting, killing, starvation, and genocide - it's directly related to the West - that's right.

These conditions have been there for some time now - and what we're seeing today are the horrors crimes against humanity and of generations upon generations of abuse and merciless violence, poverty and starvation.... as the world still sits back and does nothing.

THE UN WHO??? Could there be any bigger bunch of puppets...

so today I share the story of a very evil man, very evil people, in a very evil place... but evil begets evil and the real evil hides in trickology

Bono wants to know the solution to the starvation and the problems of Africa... it's in pointing out the true criminals, the ones in the West behind it

Do you remember that movie "The Last King of Scotland" in which Forest Whitaker won an Oscar? Well the character he played was Idi Amin I will show how he played a part in all of this as well, and with him being the pawn of the British to kill his own people.

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Ugandan Oil Fields are the best-kept secret in the world

1986 (24 years)

The government of Uganda claims the LRA has only 500 or 1,000 soldiers in total, along with about 1,500 women and children.[1] The bulk of the soldiers figthing for the LRA are children.

April 25, 2009, events are occurring in 10 countries and 100 cities involving tens of thousands of people coming together to highlight the need to rescue children forcibly kidnapped into an African private army run by an international war criminal.

This event is the result of years of efforts to bring peace to Uganda and end the enslavement of children feeding the meatgrinder of war.

MAIN ARTICLE: Invisible Children

A child goes missing, abducted, in the United States. The police are notified and they issue what in America is referred to as an Amber Alert. Radio stations begin broadcasting descriptions, while TV stations flash pictures of both the abductor and abducted across the screen. Billboards along major roads flash pertinent information regarding the abduction. The police move out in force with helicopters and planes and the Army National Guard may even be engaged. Everything is put into operation to bring a child home to its family. At the same time, they go after the abductor to put him behind bars, so she or he cannot harm any other child.

In another part of the world, on the other side of this globe, in the northern districts of Uganda, 30,000 children have been abducted in the past 18 years. Most every family in the Acholi and now Lango area has been affected. Many families have lost a child through abduction, or their village was attacked and destroyed, families burned out and/or killed, and harvests destroyed by an army of abducted children known as The Lord’s Resistance Army. The countryside is virtually empty and people have moved into safe villages that are supposed to be protected by the government, but that has often been in words but not in deed. At night the children of the north flee into towns to sleep, fearing that they might be abducted. They find safety in numbers in towns such as Gulu where even the local bishops and ministers have joined them as they seek safety from the Lord’s Resistance Army.

This Lord’s Resistance Army is led by Joseph Kony, a former altar boy, self-styled mystic, demonically inspired medium, ruthless leader, and merciless person who has brought Northern Uganda to a virtual standstill. People are frozen in fear, commerce has become non-existent, fields go fallow, villages have been decimated, and children have grown up without a future or hope. There is no peace from Lira to Gulu and all points in-between.

Joseph Kony comes from the Acholi area of Uganda. His aunt is the infamous Alice Lakwena, who led thousands of disaffected Acholi soldiers into battle against President Museveni, who had defeated their army. Soldiers were led to believe by Alice Lakwena that holy oil would keep bullets away, songs would slay their enemy, sticks would become swords, and rocks would turn into grenades and mortars. Alice Lakwena—her last name means messenger—was certainly a messenger of death and destruction. Joseph Kony had this mantle of death and sadness passed on to him from his aunt, who now lives in a refugee camp in Kenya.

Lira, located 215 miles north of Kampala, was one of those sleepy towns in Africa where you could simply be. It hardly made the international news, and one of the few articles I read about it was in “BBC – Focus on Africa,” where it described its background and culture and went to great lengths to describe Lira-Lira, a local potent drink. Its other claim to fame is that the former President Milton Obote had his home here, which you can still see, or what is left of it. I, on the other hand, simply enjoyed the drive along tree-lined roads coming in from the Ugandan savanna to the town of Lira.

Lately, Lira is making news around the world. It is not so much the things the people of the town are doing, but what is being done to them by this wild-eyed jok (jok is a spirit, good or bad) by the name of Joseph Kony, whose Lord’s Resistance Army has been raiding villages, towns, and camps of refuge that have become camps of death and destruction.

War in itself is bad, but this conflict has been going on for 18 years with no resolve in sight. This war is hellish in that the Joseph Kony’s army recruits its soldiers from the villages and schools of northern Uganda through abductions. Thousands of children have been robbed of childhood and, in many cases, of life itself. Boys and girls are turned into ruthless killers who no longer feel, but are numbed within, and their souls have become seared by the atrocities they have seen and in which they have forced to participate.

Children 10 years old are taught to kill, often beginning with their own families. Others are killed and a child is let to live and then the child is commanded to kill in order to stay alive. If children do escape, they will never be the same again.

Joseph Kony claims to want to make Uganda into a state based on the Ten Commandments, but he has broken every one of them. Today no one thinks Kony and his movement represents a loving God and Christianity or Islam, but all know it is about demonic control of children, boys and girls, young men and women, doing the bidding of a crazy man. Many of the leaders in his army were abducted 10 or 12 years ago, but have known nothing else but death and destruction.

In Lira, the name of Joseph Kony and his army of child warriors is dreaded. The town that was on the verge of blossoming in the Northern Ugandan savanna has shriveled up and died. There is fear and anger, thousands more people are without the services so desperately needed. Hospitals and clinics are without medicine. There is a lack of food and water, medical care. But thousands are flocking in for safety; tens of thousands want to remain near just to be safe. Lira, that jewel of the north, has become a scorched piece of real estate and unless a miracle takes place there is no hope.

The most recent atrocity was 200 people killed when a refugee camp was overrun by the LRA. The defense militia was helpless and the army far away. President Museveni came and blamed Kony’s army. Kony’s army is a rag tag group of children that believes in the mystical powers of their leader, children who run into the line of fire believing that the bullets can do no harm, and their weapons are often from the Sudanese military. The Ugandan Army, on the other hand, are for the most part adult men, well equipped and trained, who have helicopters, trucks and tanks but no victory. After 18 years, this war goes on and now Lira is another city dying in the north of Uganda.

Lira and the Kony Rebels is a never-ending story of children dying, of children being abducted, a loss of childlike innocence, and yet no one seems to care, it is just another story from Africa. Here in northern Uganda there is no Amber alert, there no news headlines across the bottom of Television screens, there is only the silence after another town or school are raided and children are taken. Then reads something here and there about this situation.

They may think it is interesting, sad, horrendous, but still, like in the in Congo, like in Sudan, like it was in Rwanda, Liberia and Sierra Leone, it is only Africans killing Africans and no one cares, after all the world stood still in the spring of 1994, and been for the most part inactive in regards to Sudan. Here we are in Uganda, East Africa with no Interpol alert; no helicopters out searching for one abducted child, much less 20,000 abducted children. There are no hourly updates, just President Museveni who periodically says that Joseph Kony and his children’s army will be defeated, even he is trying to get UN help.

Lira today is overwhelmed with people who have fled there to find a place of refuge, to find safety from the threat of the Lord’s Resistance Army. The town has been become overcrowded with ten of thousand of refugees seeking protection, needing food, shelter and medical attention. I recently read the appeal of the Mayor of Lira for help, food, tents, and medicine since the local hospital and clinics were simply without.

Is there a solution to the problem to "the war in the north?" That is how this conflict is referred to in Uganda. There are solutions, from military ones that have not yet succeeded, to one of cutting off the bases and support in Sudan by the Sudanese government. There is the one attempted by religious leaders of northern Uganda, the one of a treaty leading to a peaceful resolution. None of them have yet worked, but people still need relief, still need food and shelter, medicines and care