10,000 Kony Rebels Surrender - Amnesty

The Monitor (Kampala)
NEWS
December 29, 2003
Posted to the web December 29, 2003

By Frank Nyakairu
Kampala
More than 10,000 rebels have applied for amnesty in the last three years.
"The rebels were from more than a dozen groups, including the Lord's Resistance
Army," said Mr Moses Draku, the spokesman of the Amnesty Commission set up by
government to receive and resettle surrendering rebel fighters.
The other rebel groups include the Allied Democratic Forces, UNRF II and the
West Nile Bank Front.
"The latest group of 500 is that of Taban Amin who had fled at the fall of Idi
Amin. We are screening them," Draku added in a telephone conversation with The
Monitor on Saturday.
He said there were about 50,000 people who had joined various obscure rebel
groups in the country.
The Joseph Kony-led rebels have been the most active since they took up arms
against President Museveni's government in 1988, ostensibly to replace it with
an administration that would enforce the biblical Ten Commandments.
The group is infamous for its atrocities against civilians. Several human
rights groups and UN aid agencies have condemned it.

   

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