Sudan govt. determined to arrest Uganda’s rebel leader: ambassador

KAMPALA, July 30, 2004 (Xinhua) — Sudanese Ambassador to Uganda Surrajjudin Hamid on Friday said that his government is determined to arrest the head of Uganda’s rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), Joseph Kony, and hand him over to Uganda.
The ambassador was quoted by local media as saying on Friday that Sudan wanted exchange of intelligence information with Uganda in order to capture Kony.

“I know that there is an order from Khartoum to field officers in southern Sudan to the effect that Kony should be arrested. That order will be followed,” the Sudanese ambassador said.

On whether Uganda requested Sudan to arrest Kony, he said that “it is the usual request. We are determined to arrest him and hand him over to Uganda.”

Surrajjudin said the presence of the Ugandan army chief political commissar, Brig. Kale Kaihura, in Juba was a good gesture that Sudan was committed to ending the Kony insurgency.

Kaihura, who is also the military assistant to Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, is in Sudan to liaise with the Sudanese government and ensure that no more support is given to the LRA.

The envoy added that Kaihura was being assisted by the Sudanese intelligence.

The Ugandan army attacked Kony’s headquarters in Sudan and killed 120 rebels on Wednesday.