WASHINGTON, US
A five-million-dollar bounty
on the head of Ugandan fugitive and warlord General Joseph Kony is still on
offer.
On October 1, 2022 the United
States War Crimes Rewards Program urged the public to surrender information
leading to the arrest of Kony, who has been on the run for 15 years.
“Joseph Kony has been wanted
for more than 15 years. You can help bring him to justice and get paid up to $
5 million. 100% confidentiality.” The notice read.
Described at different times
as a terrorist, prophet and brutal killer, General Kony, who is wanted for war
crimes, has escaped capture for more than two decades. His rebel Lord's
Resistance Army (LRA) is notorious for abducting thousands of children to use
as soldiers or sex slaves
He is accused of terrorizing
northern Uganda for 20 years and was ejected from the country along with his rebel
group in 2005.
He is said to have kidnapped
over 30,000 children to strengthen his army, forcing the boys to become
soldiers and the girls to become sex slaves. Kony instructs the members of his
LRA to abduct, threaten, destroy, and murder in the name of his spiritual
powers.
Kony, armed ordered the LRA to
attack villages, murdering, raping, and mutilating in a campaign of
intimidation that displaced some two million people.
He claimed to receive
prophesies from spirits in his dreams and children would be abducted and
brainwashed into becoming his soldiers and slaves.
Children who resisted him were
beaten to death by their peers and he turned his female captives into his
wives.
The International Criminal Court wants him for war crimes. His militia is accused of abducting children to use as fighters and sex slaves, and of hacking off victims’ limbs as a method of intimidation and revenge. - Africa
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