| As if Sudan weren't committing enough crimes Apr 30th 2012, 07:43 Uganda accuses Sudan, under the leadership of war criminal Omar al-Bashir, of helping Kony, the truly horrible leader of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-17890432 Quote:
The Ugandan army says the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) led by Joseph Kony is being supported and supplied by the Sudanese government.
The LRA is accused of rape, mutilation, murder and the recruitment of child soldiers.
A Ugandan Defence Force colonel told the BBC they captured a member of the LRA who was wearing a Sudanese uniform, and carried its weapons and ammunition.
The US has sent special forces to help in the hunt for Mr Kony...
...Last month the African Union set up a 5,000-strong force to track down the fugitive warlord.
Mr Kony and his close aides have been wanted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court since 2005.
Col Felix Kulayigye of the Ugandan Defence Force told the BBC it had information that the LRA was now moving into Sudan, including areas controlled by the Janjaweed militia which is backed by Khartoum.
| Profile of Kony http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-17299084 Quote:
A former Catholic altar boy from northern Uganda, Joseph Kony has waged war in central Africa for more than two decades.
He claims that his Lord's Resistance Army movement has been fighting to install a government in Uganda based on the Biblical 10 Commandments.
But his rebels now terrorise large swathes of the Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan and the Central African Republic, and he is wanted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court (ICC).
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