Tag: International Criminal Court
New report on the ICC and northern Uganda
Check out this report from the Brookings-Bern project on Internal Displacement, which I haven’t read yet because it just came out.
Posted: April 20th, 2009 under Africa, International Criminal Court, Uganda, civil wars, human rights, humanitarian, international children's issues.
Tags: International Criminal Court, Joseph Kony, Lord's Resistance Army, northern Uganda, Yoweri Musveni
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You can’t have it both ways
My head is going to explode from the criticism I’m hearing now about the U.S. helping the Ugandan government and neighbors militarily pursue Joseph Kony and his Lord’s Resistance Army rebel elite.
Look, in 1993, I was one of the earliest journalists in this country to write — and write consistently — about the war in [...]
Posted: February 8th, 2009 under Africa, Foreign policy, International Criminal Court, civil wars, human rights, international children's issues, northern Uganda.
Tags: child soldiers, girls' rights, International Criminal Court, Joseph Kony, Lord's Resistance Army, northern Uganda
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The LRA, still
Nothing like marking the beginning of a new month with an attack by the Lord’s Resistance Army. Reuters story below, with my brief comment following it.
Ugandan rebels attack Congo town, 50,000 flee -UN
Sat 1 Nov 2008, 17:58 GMT
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KINSHASA, Nov 1 (Reuters) - Ugandan Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels raided a town in northern [...]
Posted: November 1st, 2008 under Africa, International Criminal Court, Uncategorized, civil wars, human rights, northern Uganda.
Tags: Central African Republic, DRC, International Criminal Court, Joseph Kony, Lord's Resistance Army, LRA, Museveni, N. Uganda, Sudan
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