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The Cause of the Ugandan Crisis.
The roots of the current war between the government of Uganda and the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in Acholiland are entwined with the history of conflicts in Uganda and the rise to power of the National Resistance Movement/National Resistance Army (NRM/A). The conflict has persisted because of fragmented and divisive national politics, strategies and tactics adopted by the armed protagonists, and regional and international interests. The harrowing war has claimed many innocent civilian lives, forcefully displaced over 400,000 people and destroyed schools and health centres. In addition, the war has been characterized by widespread and systematic violations of human rights, including rapes, abductions of men, women and children, torture, increased economic decay, and national and regional insecurity. A major problem with what is going on

Members of the LRA, are with their guns.

The Lord's Resistance Army (LRA)
The Lord's Resistance Army, was operating in the north, but they were stationed in southern Sudan. Some of the LRA's attacks were rape, abduction, maiming, and killing of thousands of civilians. The LRA's activity fell in 1997, because more people started to target the LRA. The LRA has abducted thousands of children, and are training them to be the LRA's next fighter. They train them by fear. They'll shoot a kid right in front of them. This will show the kids not to betray them, and it will also show them death, and make it so that the children aren't afraid of death. These children become brainwashed, into abducting more children to bring them into this culture. The LRA rebels say they are fighting for the establishment of a government based on the biblical Ten Commandments. They are notorious for kidnapping children and forcing them to become rebel fighters or concubines. More than one-half-million people in Uganda's Gulu and Kitgum districts have been displaced by the fighting and are living in temporary camps, protected by the army.

Sources used in this piece:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/para/lra.htm