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President of Uganda Overthrown
SiteVideoYoweri Musevini overthrew the president of Uganda and then he became the president. At first he was a favorite to the people by making unkeepable promises for Uganda, but when he took office everything turned sour. He started making bad decisions for Uganda for personal gain and started unnecisary violence sprees throughout Uganda. He started many rebel goups because of his terrible doings. -
Kony Preaches
Kony acts as a catholic preacher for the Uganda Peoples Democratic Army. He knows much in this subject because he was an alter boy as a kid before dropping out of school and running away. He convinces the people that the lord is with them and if they draw a cross on themselves across their chest then they will be safe from bullets. He converts many people through trust and fear. -
Kony recruits for the UPDA
SiteThe Holy Spirit mobile forces fall to the National Resistance Army and Kony takes the remaining HSMF members and gets them to join the Uganda People’s Democratic Army. This allows Kony to get a base group of strong soldiers together. It strengthens what he had already. This makes the UPDA more of a threat in the eyes of other armies across Uganda. -
Kony Begins the rampage
siteVideoKony begins his ravage across Uganda by raping, murdering, pillaging, and enlisting children into his army on Febuary 7, 1991. This was the day that Kony struck fear into his enemies and the people of Uganda. They started to run but he would find them. He assaulted young women. He murdered and pilliaged villages. He also took children from their families and added them to his army. -
Assistance from the government of Sudan
SiteBy now the UPDA has changed their name to the Lord's Resistance Army. The LRA continued to attack and pilliage, so the LRA receives supplies and help from the Sudanese government in return for the LRA’s assistance in the Sudanese Khartoum wars. The LRA was of much assistance to the Sudanese. The supplies that the Sudanese sent were very usefull as well. -
LRA makes the terrorist list
Siteon April 2, 2001 the United States adds the LRA to the list of major terrorist groups. This is a huge deal which spreads the word of the LRA to other countries throughout the world. The LRA is not the highest ranking group but they quickly were working their way up. Soon though they would be forgotten because of 9/11 everyone remembers Al Quieda not the LRA. -
Ugandan Government hold peace conferences
SiteOn March 16, 2004 LRA rebels kill over 330 civilians which leads to the Ugandan government to hold peace conferences with the LRA leaders but no agreements are met. This was only a start to the ensuing negotiations of peace but none were ever made. Neither side could come to agree with the others terms. In the minds of the Ugandan people they felt more of a sense of hope because of the start of the peace talks. -
ICC places arrest warrants
SiteVideoOn September 27, 2005 the international criminal court placed arrest warrants for Joseph Kony, the leader of the LRA, and his top 5 generals. The warrants were for war crimes such as enlisting children and crimes against humanity such as rape and public massacre. This was a huge step in the process of taking the LRA down because now every single country had a reason to arrest Kony. -
Musevini initiates the PRDP
SiteOn July 6, 2007 Yoweri MUsevini starts the Peace, Recovery, and Development plan to try and rebuild nothern Uganda after all of the LRA's raids and destruction. However, northern Ugandans express frustration with the lack of implementation of the plan. -
Juba Peace talks
SiteOn April 2, 2008 the final peace talks were held with the LRA. Kony was there in person to talk and to try and work a deal with the Ugandan Governmaent known as the Juba Peace talks. The procees was almost complete, but there was one paper left and Joseph Kony would not agree to it no matter how mutch the Ugandan Government pleaded. Eventually the LRA moved out of Uganda and into other African Countries.
