Joseph Kony

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Joseph Kony (2013)

Joseph Rao Kony (* around 1961 in Odek , Uganda ) is a war criminal and leader of the Lord's Resistance Army (" Lord's Resistance Army ", LRA), a rebel group that the civilian population in northern Uganda and later in the Central African Republic and Democratic Republic Congo and South Sudan terrorized and the government of Uganda under Yoweri Museveni declared war, had the goal of becoming a theocratic introduce system of government in Uganda, which on the biblical Ten commandments should be based. Since 2005 he has been searched worldwide with an arrest warrant by the international criminal court based in The Hague. His whereabouts are unknown, he is believed to be in the Kafia Kingi border region between Sudan and South Sudan.

The Lord's Resistance Army, led by Kony, is believed to have abducted 66,000 children and trained as soldiers , and is held responsible for the internal displacement of more than two million people.

Life

Joseph Kony, an Acholi , was born in 1961 to a poor family in the northern Ugandan village of Odek. He developed from an altar boy and school dropout to an elusive and brutal rebel leader who describes himself as a spirit medium , master and liberator. Kony first appeared in January 1987 at the presumed age of 26. He led the LRA, which he founded as one of numerous groups that emerged after the fall of the Holy Spirit Movement of his cousin (some sources speak of aunt, e.g. Hope-international) Alice Auma Lakwena . He was significantly influenced by this.

He allegedly received an order from the " Holy Spirit " to found the LRA in 1986 and left his hometown of Odek unarmed with 11 supporters on April 1, 1987. In the same year, his later Lieutenant General Vincent Otti joined his group shot in an alleged conspiracy against him.

Kony's group advocates a Christian theocratic state in Uganda based on the Bible and the Ten Commandments . The polygamy is in Kony's conception of Christian fundamentalism , according to the Old Testament permitted, the pig is regarded as relevant statements of the Old Testament as an unclean animal and the consumption of pork forbidden. Kony himself stated that he was led by the "holy spirit" in his struggle.

In 2008 he stayed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo , among other places , where it is difficult to find due to the geographic and political circumstances. Since 2010 he has been suspected of being in the Kafia Kingi enclave - under Sudanese protection .

Accuse

After almost 20 years of terrorism, an investigation was initiated at the International Criminal Court on October 13, 2005 , and an arrest warrant was issued . It is said that in late 2003 Kony ordered the killing, robbing and abducting civilians, including those living in camps for internally displaced persons. Then the senior commanders of the LRA and all brigade commanders began to attack various regions in Uganda. Joseph Kony's arrest warrant lists 33 charges, including:

The Lord's Resistance Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act of 2009 was presented in March 2009 and passed by the US Congress in March 2010 . In the course of this, 100 US soldiers were sent as advisors .

On March 24, 2014, the Washington Post reported the relocation of four US CV-22 Osprey VTOL transporters and the dispatch of 150 Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) soldiers to Uganda . The soldiers are to support the search for Joseph Kony. In April 2017, a spokesman for the Ugandan army announced that the search for Kony would be stopped. His LRA has shrunk to less than 100 members and is no longer a threat to the country.

Kony 2012

The organization Invisible Children Inc. 2011/12 launched the campaign Kony 2012 to the arrest Joseph Kony. As a result, Kony’s acts came into the public eye. A little later the African Union announced that it would send 5,000 soldiers to Central Africa to arrest Joseph Kony there. At the end of June 2012, in a presidential declaration , the UN Security Council approved the sending of troops to capture Kony and destroy his resistance army. In January 2013, Kony's bodyguard and chief logistician was killed. In early April of that year, the US put a bounty amounting to 5 million US dollars (3.9 million euros from) on Kony.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matthew Green: The Wizard of the Nile. The Hunt for Africa's Most Wanted. Portobello Books 2008. p. 57.
  2. ↑ Kony et al. Case. Retrieved March 6, 2018 (UK English).
  3. ↑ Michelle Trimborn: Mass Murderer: What Happened to Warlord Joseph Kony? In: Spiegel Online . February 3, 2016 ( spiegel.de [accessed March 6, 2018]).
  4. ↑ http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h111-2478 .
  5. ^ Matthew Green: The Wizard of the Nile. The Hunt for Africa's Most Wanted. Portobello Books, 2008. p. 39.
  6. ^ Matthew Green: The Wizard of the Nile. The Hunt for Africa's Most Wanted. Portobello Books, 2008. p. 40.
  7. ↑ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7083311.stm .
  8. ^ Archive link ( Memento from June 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive ).
  9. ↑ Jane's Intelligence Report , 7/2008, p. 6.
  10. ↑ Simone Schlindwein: The hunt for warlords is ended , taz of September 6, 2016, p. 11.
  11. ↑ Rodney Muhumuza: Joseph Kony's rebels sell ivory, minerals: report , AP report on Yahoo from November 19, 2014 (English).
  12. ↑ http://www.zeit.de/2006/29/Uganda_Kasten .
  13. ↑ http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-2478 .
  14. ↑ 100 US soldiers against Uganda's most brutal rebels on Welt.de from October 15, 2011.
  15. ↑ Washington Post: US sends Osprey aircraft, more Special Operations forces to hunt Ugandan warlord, March 24, 2014.
  16. ↑ FAZ.net: America expands the hunt for Joseph Kony from March 24, 2014.
  17. ↑ End of the hunt for rebel leader Kony. FAZ, April 19, 2017
  18. ^ Rebel chief Kony. In: Spiegel Online , March 23, 2012.
  19. ↑ African Union: UN approves the hunt for Kony. In: nzz.ch , June 30, 2012, accessed June 30, 2012.
  20. ↑ http://www.derwesten.de/politik/ugandische-soldaten-toeten-leibwaechter-von-milizenchef-kony-id7506200.html .
  21. ↑ USA: Five million dollar bounty on Joseph Kony. In: diepresse.com , April 3, 2013, accessed April 4, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Kony, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kony, Joseph Rao (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ugandan leader of a murderous rebel group
DATE OF BIRTH around 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Odek , Uganda