Alice Auma, a crazy woman in a small village called Opite in northern Uganda, disappeared in a national reserve for several weeks after living a quiet life for more than 30 years. When she came back, she claimed that she was possessed by an Italian officer. She called this officer "Aquinas", which means "the spokesman of God". Then one day, she claimed that L 'Aquinas had given her a new mission. She should first purify her home in northern Uganda through war and then save the world.
Alice Aquinas began her career as a rebel leader on August 20th, 1986. Government soldiers kidnapped some young people in her village and imprisoned them in nearby military camps. Desperate local families are superstitious about Aquinas' boastful superpowers and beg her for help. So she gathered 150 people and 40 guns and went straight to the barracks. The soldiers fled for fear of Aquinas' reputation and tyrannical people. As a result, this 150 people quickly grew into a holy spirit guerrilla with as many as18,000 people, and later evolved into the Lord's Resistance Army.
Aquinas commanded the first and only guerrilla war of the Holy Spirit. The result of the battle was an amazing success, although she didn't ask her soldiers to use rifles. She issued absurd combat instructions in the army. Soldiers like to go into battle naked after being coated with African avocado oil. Superstition about tree oil can make them invulnerable. Aquinas taught that God would guide their bullets, pick up a readily available stone and throw it as a Grenade. On the battlefield, these people sang religious songs and shouted "James Bond is invincible! James Bond is invincible! James Bond is invincible! " . Afraid of Aquinas' supernatural ability to attract so many followers, Ugandan troops often fled the battlefield. The Holy Ghost guerrillas in L 'Aquinas stormed 80 miles from the capital until they were defeated by an artillery battalion. In 2007, Aquinas fled to a refugee camp by bike and died there. As a young guerrilla commander, Joseph Kony followed Aquinas in his early years and witnessed the rise and fall of the Holy Spirit guerrillas. It is said that Kony followed Aquinas' mission and belief devoutly and once worked as a therapist and wizard. According to the villagers in Kony's hometown, he and L 'Aquinas have the same grandfather. Kony preached that Aquinas and other gods who had helped Alice had appeared to him. So he quickly took over Aquinas' army. At first, Kony was mainly responsible for the religious beliefs of the troops and handed over the command of the battle to another commander. But this man was later killed, and Kony took over the power in an all-round way, and quickly renamed the army the Lord's Resistance Army.
Although Kony is crazier than Alice Aquinas, he is also more successful and persistent in resistance. A rebel Lord's Resistance Army captain said that Kony was possessed by a spirit at least two or three times a day, and then gave all kinds of cruel orders. "But no one dared to correct God, and no one dared to question God," the captain recalled. Kony often ordered the torture and killing of civilians for no reason, swept villages, enslaved children with drugs and whips, and formed a boy scout who was still growing.
Alice won wide support because she promised to condemn the unpopular government; But Kony abused people's hearts and formed an army of personality cult, which made other Ugandans quickly rise up against him. The Ugandan government calmed down the civil strife a little and began to concentrate on dealing with the Lord's Resistance Army. This seems to be the end of Kony's fate, but the turbulent political situation in Central Africa is beneficial to him again. Uganda and Sudan started a small-scale battle, although the two countries did not declare war openly: Uganda supported the rebel tribes in southern Sudan against the Arab government in northern Sudan. In response, the Sudanese government recognized the legitimacy of the Lord's Resistance Army and provided it with security protection, including a car full of Kalashnikovs. The Sudanese government asked Kony to create chaos in Uganda and southern Sudan. In some rural areas of the two countries, you may not even have seen a submachine gun, let alone a group of boy scouts tied with ropes or randomly shooting with automatic rifles. Every battle, there were many casualties on both sides, but the durable Kasnikov submachine gun was intact. Kony just needs to hide the gun in a cave or an ant nest and get it back months or years later. Now, to completely disarm the Lord's Resistance Army, thousands of miles of dense jungle must be cleared with metal detectors. It is obviously impossible to persuade Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir to cut off their funding sources. He is still fighting for Darfur and other rebel forces. Even in the past few decades, supporting terrorist armed forces has been one of Bashar's well-known strategies.
Since the1980s, the Ugandan government has made several attempts to disband or defeat the LRA. This work even has a special position: Minister of Peace of Northern Uganda. Betty Bigombe was the first to take office. She met Kony deep in the jungle, so that many followers refused to attend the meeting for fear of being killed or disabled. However, President Museveni foiled the hopeful 1994 peace talks in Baigombi, and many other talks since then. Museveni has every reason to hope that the war will continue. Because he was still unpopular in the north, the Lord's Resistance Army gave his troops a good excuse to occupy those rebel areas. This is also a good opportunity for him to transfer some "vulnerable" people from northern Uganda to refugee camps, because he claims that people there are more vulnerable to protection. The bloody attack of the Lord's Resistance Army also found the backbone for Uganda, which was once divided, because a public enemy United everyone. No matter what atrocities Museveni committed, the Lord's Resistance Army will always be a hundred times worse.
American aid didn't make much difference. In 2002, Ugandan troops launched an American-funded Iron Fist operation against LRA camps in northern Uganda and southern Sudan. The United States forced the Sudanese government to allow Ugandan troops to enter the country and provided tactical and intelligence support for Museveni's attack on Kony's 10000 troops. But the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army escaped unscathed. In 2004, the second Iron Fist operation expelled many members of the Lord's Resistance Army to Sudan and neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo, but it was fruitless in other aspects. Kony even fled west to Central Africa.
Kony is still wanted for Museveni. The fighting in Uganda has stopped, but Ugandan troops have taken control of unprecedented areas. In the second half of 2008, the ultimate revenge organization led by Uganda pushed its armed forces to several other Central African countries. The ultimate revenge didn't even catch Kony's hair, because his arrogance had gradually shifted to the west. However, Uganda and Museveni have become the actual military leaders in most parts of Central Africa. In 2005, the International Criminal Court, headquartered in The Hague, the Netherlands, issued arrest warrants for the main leaders of the "Lord's Resistance Army" on 33 counts of crimes against humanity and war crimes, and Interpol also issued a wanted order for them in 2006. In August 2006, the "Lord's Resistance Army" signed the "Cessation of Hostilities Agreement" with the Ugandan government, but the organization did not implement the agreement. After the Ugandan military intensified its encirclement and suppression, the "Lord's Resistance Army" fled to southern Sudan, northeastern Congo (DRC) and Central Africa to continue its rebellion. From 5 June to 38 February 2008, the armies of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and southern Sudan launched a joint operation against the "Lord's Resistance Army" in Orientale Province in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. On June 5438+065438+ 10, 2009, the UN Security Council issued a statement condemning the armed forces, welcoming relevant countries to jointly crack down on the organization, and encouraging these countries to cooperate with UN peacekeeping forces on the ground to protect civilians, including women and children. On July 20 10, the representative of Sudan said at the African Union summit that regional countries should take coordinated actions to completely eliminate the harm of the rebels. 2011/kloc-0 June 14, US President Barack Obama announced that he would send 100 US troops to Uganda and other Central African countries as consultants to provide information, suggestions and help in the fight against the Lord's Resistance Army.