A court in Uganda has convicted Thomas Kwoyelo, a former commander of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), of dozens of crimes against humanity in a landmark case. "He is found guilty of the 44 ...

The seventeen-year war in northern Uganda has been characterized by great brutality by the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), as documented in Human Rights Watch's 1997 report, The Scars of Death ...

The killings happened mainly between 1987 and 2004. This was the peak of the LRA-led insurgency in northern Uganda ...

Then, in January 2004, the president complicated the amnesty offer by also inviting the International Criminal Court into Uganda to prosecute LRA leaders for war crimes. The human rights group ...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has added three new charges to the case against fugitive Ugandan rebel leader Joseph ...

Tension is rising in Gulu after about 35 orphans, born during the LRA war, were turned away from Gulu University and the Gulu School of Clinical Officers in Gulu City due to failure to ...

The LRA was notorious for chopping off people's limbs and abducting children to use as soldiers and sex slaves. Mr Kony, wanted on war crimes charges, first emerged in Uganda but fled more than a ...

The National Resistance Movement (NRM) of President Yoweri Museveni came to power in 1986, bringing to an end fifteen years of massive violations of human rights by the governments of Idi Amin and ...

In his expert testimony and guidance, he was able to detail the background to the war, the politics and history of Uganda, the Acholi-specific cultural context, the human rights abuses of the LRA, and ...

The LRA’s poaching threat, relative to other actors ... Fisher, J. 2014. Framing Kony: Uganda’s war, Obama’s advisers and the nature of ‘influence’ in Western foreign policy making. Third World ...

In 2012, a half-hour documentary was produced by Invisible Children, Inc. about Joseph Kony, head of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in Uganda, who was indicted for war crimes in 2005 by the ...