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Stop Kony Aid - Bishops

The Monitor (Kampala)
NEWS
July 27, 2004
Posted to the web July 27, 2004

By Moses Odokonyer & John Muto
Gulu
Northern Uganda bishops and their southern Sudan counterparts have asked the
Sudan government to stop supporting LRA leader Joseph Kony. They made the
appeal in a statement issued at the end of a two-day crossborder workshop at
Acholi Inn in Gulu on Friday.
The LRA have bases in southern Sudan, but they continue to cross the border to
wreck havoc in northern Uganda.
"The governments of neighbouring countries and regional and international
bodies should put sustained pressure on the Government of Sudan to urgently
cease support to the LRA," the bishops said in a joint statement on Friday
evening.
The religious leaders accused the international community of not doing enough
to stop the northern insurgency they described as one of the world's worst
crises.
The 4th Division Commander, Col. Nathan Mugisha, asked the bishops to condemn
the LRA terrorism, which he said had denied people peace. "There is no
production although we have fertile land. We have lost a whole generation of
child soldiers who have developed the culture of living by the gun."

   

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