Countering the Lord’s Resistance Army in Central Africa

Authors

Andre Le Sage, Center for Strategic Research, Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University

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Description

The Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) is one of Africa’s most brutal militia forces.1 It has plagued Central Africa, particularly northern Uganda, for over two decades. The group’s tactics provide textbook of war crimes and crimes against humanity. When attacking civil- LRA instills fear by selecting random individuals for brutal executions. Children are abducted to serve as porters, sex slaves, and new militia. In order to indoctrinate child soldiers, young abductees are routinely forced to kill their own family members and other children, or be murdered them- selves. Anyone caught trying to escape from the LRA is summarily executed. By contrast with other African rebel groups, which occasionally adopt such brutal tactics, the LRA has conducted such atrocities on a systematic and prolonged basis.

Document Type

Policy Brief

Publication Date

7-2011

Publication

Strategic Forum

Publisher

National Defense University Press

City

Washington, DC

Recommended Citation

Le Sage, Andre, "Countering the Lord’s Resistance Army in Central Africa" (2011). Strategic Forums. 70.
https://digitalcommons.ndu.edu/strategic-forums/70