Sudan sets deadline to end Uganda’s LRA rebellion
KAMPALA, August 02, 2004 (Xinhua) — The Sudan People’s Armed Forces ( SPAF) has set Aug. 6 as a deadline to end Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebellion, reported Ugandan state-owned newspaper The New Vision on Monday.
Brig. Kale Kaihura, Ugandan army chief political commissar and military assistant to President Yoweri Museveni, was quoted as saying that SPAF Brig. Mohammed Habib assured him of Sudan’s commitment to ending the LRA rebellion in a week.
“We are very committed to ending this Kony (LRA leader Joseph Kony) problem. I assure Uganda that we shall either capture him and hand him over in seven days from today or we shall kill him if he resists,” Habib told Kaihura on Friday.
Kaihura, now based in Juba, southern Sudan to negotiate with the Sudanese authorities, said “we have done our part. We trust that we are going to work together to end this menace once for all and for our common good.”
Habib affirmed that “our people here in Sudan have suffered from his terrorism just as much as our brothers and sisters in northern Uganda.”
“The time is now. We are going to capture him in seven days or kill him,” he said.
The Uganda army attacked Kony’s headquarters in Sudan and killed 120 rebels on Wednesday