Joseph Kony is committed to Ugandan peace process – Machar
By Isaac Vuni
April 16, 2008 (JUBA) — The Vice-President of southern Sudan government announced he will meet the elusive leader of the rebel LRA next month. He also assured his commitment to the two year peace process to end two decades of war in northern Uganda.
The chief mediator said that despite expiration of the cession of hostility agreement on 16th April 2008, Kony “is still committed to peaceful settlement of their grievances with the government of Ugandan and that his forces will honour the expired agreement and remain in the designated assembly camp at Riikwnbwa.”
Kony refused last week to sign the final text of peace agreement brokered by the southern Sudan government. Machar said that the rebel leader did not turn up last week because he “wanted more information,” notably on the criminal charges and the disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration of his fighters.
He said Lord’s Resistance Army leader Joseph Kony requested for series of meetings involving LRA delegations, elders, traditional and religious leaders, local government administrators and members of parliament from northern Uganda to elucidate to him the details of the already signed agreements including the DDR.
Vice president Machar further disclosed that Joseph Kony has provided him with one week meeting programme timetable starting from 26 to 27 April meeting with LRA delegation led by James Obit for thorough briefing on the progress of the Juba peace talks, from 28 to 30 April meeting with elders, traditional and religious leaders including local government leaders and the members of parliaments from northern Uganda and finally meeting with the chief negotiator, Riek Machr on the first of May 2008 at Riikwnbwa designated camp in Western Equatoria State of Southern Sudan.
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said last Monday during one day visit to Juba that he did not think Kony was serious about the talks, and hinted that Ugandan forces could abandon the ceasefire.
Twenty years of fighting have left tens of thousands dead and displaced two million people, mainly in northern Uganda. Several thousand have also been killed in southern Sudan, where the LRA has camps.
Kony, a semi-literate former altar boy, took charge in 1988 of a regional rebellion among northern Uganda’s ethnic Acholi minority.
The original rebellion was mounted in 1986 by Holy Spirit Movement commander Alice Lakwena, who told her fighters she could rely on magic potions to turn enemy bullets into stones.
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Mr Famous Big_Logic_Boy
Joseph Kony is committed to Ugandan peace process – Machar
I beleive that those who are acting as mediators between this peace must not be coward of telling their own opinions to NRM and SPLA,they must be hand in hands with LRA to ensure that NRM and SPLA are getting right information about the opinion of LRA leader,please be real in this peace it’s not for Ugandans only,but it’s for both sides to enjoy better lives from being attack.i can see that Konye is tired of suffering in the bush and he has no room to breath in and he is committed to the peace,but there is lack of proper communication btn both sides to bring perfect process to the peace.mediators are coward to risk their lives.
ochan stephen
Joseph Kony is committed to Ugandan peace process – Machar
BY Ochan S. Lochi Peter
Well, by now we should know that the fugitive LRA leader Joseph Kony is guided by the devil’s spirit and with such strange satanic advice on keeping to fool the world around him . What mediators should customised is to persuade him till the zero minute he will be captured life and sent to Netherland for his University of understanding.
Remember the theif will continue to steal for about 40 days and the last day is when he/she is then captured red handed.
Many poweful fighters including the late Saudi Arabian only begotten son Sadam Hussien in the grave was behaving identical way Uganda’s Kony is acting.