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The Lord’s Resistance Army In 2012, President Obama deployed about 100 troops to target the leadership of the insurgent group from northern Uganda. Here’s a look at some of the members, and victims, of the Lord’s Resistance Army.
April 29, 2012
A 29-year-old Army Special Forces captain from Texas who identified himself only by his first name, Gregory, in accordance with Special Forces security guidelines, speaks alongside troops from the Central African Republic and Uganda in the Central African Republic town of Obo, where they are collaborating in the search for warlord Joseph Kony.
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April 29, 2012
A soldier from the Central African Republic stands guard at a building used for joint meetings between members of the Central African Republic’s military and U.S. Army Special Forces soldiers in the town of Obo.
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April 27, 2012
An aerial view of northern Uganda. Some residents there have concerns that complicate the military mission of forces hunting for Lord’s Resistance Army leader Joseph Kony. Residents fear reprisal attacks if they are thought to be helping the authorities find him, and they are worried that the troops hunting Kony’s militia will not be able to distinguish between the regular LRA fighters and their abducted children.
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April 27, 2012
A child plays at a former camp for displaced persons fleeing violence in Uganda. Most of the camp’s residents have now returned to their villages, in Bobi, near the town of Gulu, though residents there are still worried about reprisals from Joseph Kony and his Lord’s Resistance Army if they help the forces chasing Kony and the LRA.
Ben Curtis
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April 27, 2012
Children play at a health center on the grounds of a former camp for refugees who fled violence in Uganda. Most of the camp's inhabitants have returned to their villages, in Bobi, near Gulu, Uganda.
Ben Curtis
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April 27, 2012
A child walks past huts at a former camp for refugees who fled fighting in Uganda.
Ben Curtis
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April 29, 2012
In the Central African Republic town of Obo, children cheer a convoy of troops from the Central African Republic, Uganda, and the United States collaborating in the hunt for Joseph Kony.
Ben Curtis
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April 29, 2012
Ricardo Dimanche, center, director of Radio Zereda, which translates as Radio Peace, broadcasts from the station in Obo in the Central African Republic. The station is powered by solar panels and was partially built with U.S. funds.
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April 27, 2012
Adye Sunday, 25, who was abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army when she was 13, prepares food to sell at a center set up to help those who have left or fled the LRA, in Gulu, Uganda. Adye Sunday, who was forced to be among Joseph Kony's dozens of "wives" and says he's also the father of her two children, isn't sure how she feels about the calls to kill or capture Kony.
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April 27, 2012
Adye Sunday's daughter Betty, 3, looks up at her mother, who was abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army and forced to be a wife of the group's leader, Joseph Kony. She is among those northern Ugandans who have conflicted feelings about the calls to kill or capture Kony.
Ben Curtis
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Associated Press
April 27, 2012
Adye Sunday, 25, prepares food to sell at a center set up to help those who have left or fled the Lord's Resistance Army in Gulu, Uganda. She was 13 when she was abducted by Lord's Resistance Army leader Joseph Kony. She says he is the father of her two children, including Betty, 3, at her side.
Ben Curtis
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Associated Press
April 29, 2012
The town of Obo in the Central African Republic is seen from the air. Obo was the first place in the Central African Republic that Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army attacked in 2008, and today it's one of five outposts for U.S. troops who have paired up with local forces and Ugandan soldiers to seek out Kony.
Ben Curtis
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Associated Press
Nov. 12, 2006
The leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, Joseph Kony, answers journalists' questions after a meeting with U.N . humanitarian chief at the time, Jan Egeland, at Ri-Kwamba in southern Sudan. Egeland met with Kony, one of the world's most-wanted alleged war criminals, seeking to secure the release of women and children enslaved by the group during its 20-year conflict with the Ugandan government. Kony has denied that his forces are holding prisoners.
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Sept. 20, 2006
A group of about 40 Lord's Resistance Army fighters emerge from thick bush at Ri-Kwangba on southern Sudan's border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, one of two neutral camps where the group gathered under a landmark truce as signed with Uganda. Elusive rebel leader Joseph Kony and several other top commanders have been charged with war crimes for atrocities allegedly committed during the guerrilla group's almost 20-year war in northern Uganda.
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Jan. 17, 2011
Dried beans are weighed at a food distribution point for internally displaced south Sudanese people by the World Food Program in the town of Yambio, Sudan. Thousands of south Sudanese have been displaced by violence stemming from the Lord's Resistance Army.
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Jan. 17, 2011
A girl sits with her family's food provisions distributed to internally displaced south Sudanese residents by the World Food Program in the town of Yambio, Sudan. Thousands of south Sudanese residents have been displaced by violence stemming from the Lord's Resistance Army.
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April 10, 2008
A member of the Sudanese People's Liberation Army smokes as he awaits the arrival of delegates from the Lord's Resistance Army at Ri-Kwangba in southern Sudan. Rebels and negotiators had gathered in a jungle clearing waiting for Joseph Kony, Uganda's fugitive rebel leader, to emerge from hiding and sign a peace deal, but Kony delayed the expected signing of the deal.
Glenna Gordon
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Feb. 11, 2009
The remains of a hut are seen in the destroyed village of Ndiagbe. Lord's Resistance Army rebels attacked Ndiagbe in January 2009, killing and kidnapping villagers and burning every building.
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Associated Press
Oct. 5, 2009
Uganda People's Defence Force troops burn a heap of about 3,500 illegal guns in Kampala, Uganda. The arms cache, ranging from AK-47s to machine guns, was recovered from Lord's Resistance Army rebels and was being disposed of by official forces.
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Sept. 2, 2006
Auma Consolata, a former abductee of the Lord's Resistance Army when she was 17, bears the scars of her encounter with the rebels, who cut off her lips, nose and ears before she escaped back to her family. Afterward, she was living with her baby daughter in the Unyama camp for internally displaced people in northern Uganda and was adamant that Joseph Kony, the guerrilla group's leader, must be killed.
Tugela Ridely
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Feb. 12, 2003
A group of boys show the wounds they suffered while fighting for the Lord's Resistance Army at the GUSCO Reception Center, a rehabilitation home for children abducted and forced to fight by the rebels in the northern Uganda town of Gulu.
Karel Prinsloo
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Feb. 24, 2004
Villagers sit in the back of a Ugandan army truck as they are moved to a safe area from near the Barlonyo camp, the site of a massacre carried out by the Lord's Resistance Army.
Karel Prinsloo
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