جيش الرب للمقاومة 1987-2012 : دراسة تاريخية

Abstract EN

This piece of research aims to study a critical stage of Uganda's modern history, by shedding light on chapters of a raging conflict that the African continent is still suffering from so far, and revealing the grave violations of the organization of The Lord's Resistance Army against the armless population.

The research problem centrally focuses on attempting to understand The Lord’s Resistance Army and its danger, especially since it is an Ugandan rebel faction, since it was founded by Joseph Kony in April 1987, which followed in the footsteps of the Holy Spirit Movement, in response to the violence in the north of the country, committed by Ugandan soldiers, under the leadership of President Yoweri Museveni since 1986.

The organization became known as The Lord's Resistance Army in the early 1990s, and was active in the border regions of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, and South Sudan, where it initially enjoyed support among the northern population, but its forcible recruitment of child soldiers and brutal abuses, such as the killing of armless people, led to widespread hatred against them.

The Lord's Resistance Army killed the villagers and kidnapped tens of thousands, including children, which led to the issuance of arrest warrants for its leader, Joseph Kony, by the International Criminal Court.

Efforts are continuing to curb the organization's grave violations, especially after the regional cooperation initiative against it, led by the African Union, on March 24, 2012.

This initiative included devising a mechanism for joint-coordination and establishing joint-operations center to combat this organization and its repressive acts.

The paper has not been satisfied with the descriptive method only, but it has also relied on the analytical method in order to seek to critically analyze the available information in order to reach valid findings here.

The investigation has arrived at important conclusions, including that this organization, despite its promotion of the claim that it represents the oppression of the Acholi people in the north at the hands of the country’s authorities, the serious violations that it committed later prompted several countries to fight it, in order to drain off its sources and to eliminate the excessive cruelty that characterizes it.