SPLA Warns LRA Rebels

by Dradenya Amazia, New Vision.

Sept 5, 2005 (Kampala) — The Sudanese Peoples Liberation Army (SPLA) has warned Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) against terrorising local people that has created new influx of Sudanese refugees in Uganda saying Sudan is now a country of peace.

“We warn the LRA and its leadership that we in SPLA have laid down our guns for peace and development. if they don’t talk peace with the Ugandan government like we did in our country, then we will soon show them the exit from Sudan,” SPLA’s Brig. Gen. Johnson Juma Okot said.

He said on Thursday in Adjumani that many Acholi, Madi and Kakwa, against whom the LRA has intensified attacks, were from Loa, Kiti and Lolubo in Magwi county.

The UN refugees’ agency UNHCR and Uganda have reported to have registered over 200 Sudanese refugees displaced by the LRA.