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Kony Orders for Serious Attacks

New Vision (Kampala)
NEWS
June 5, 2004
Posted to the web June 6, 2004
Kampala
LORD'S Resistance Army (LRA) rebel chief Joseph Kony has ordered his commanders
to launch serious attacks within and around Gulu municipality, reports Dennis
Ojwee.
Gulu LC5 chairman Col. Walter Ochora recently said Kony had ordered two of his
field commanders, Dominis Ongwen and Tulu, to carry out the attacks on Gulu
town.
Ochora was meeting the Pope's envoy and president of Justice and Peace in the
Vatican, Cardinal Renato Martino, in his office in Gulu on Tuesday .
Martino, who had paid a courtesy call on Ochora, also discussed peace related
issues with the resident district commissioner, Max Omeda.
Ochora said Kony appointed LRA vice-chairman Vincent Otti to head the attacks.
"I spoke to Otti yesterday (Monday, May 31) who was surprised to discover that
the army was already aware of Kony's orders to begin attacks on Gulu," Ochora
said.
Ochora said the atrocities caused by the LRA have forced many people, including
children, from Gulu and the entire Acholi region to abandon their homes at
night and trek into towns to find safe places where they could sleep for fear
of being abducted in the night.
"Since the LRA war started in the north, many children have been abducted and
sexually abused by the rebels," he said.

   

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