A Growth Of Human Rights Violations

The Lord’s Resistance Army insurgency is an ongoing guerrilla campaign that started in 1987. The Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebel group was led by Joseph Kony. Kony proclaims himself as the “spokesperson” of god. His objective is to overthrow the Ugandan government, establishing a theocratic state based on the Ten Commandments and Acholi tradition.

The issue concerning child soldiers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is a very widespread problem throughout the country as a whole. Child soldiers in all countries are a problem because of the inhumane treatment of children, but the situation is especially bad in the Democratic Republic of the Congo because of the amount of it and the lack of action taken to stop it. Though the government has signed contracts of sorts stating they will take action against this unlawful behavior, they have barely done anything. As a result of this, children are still being recruited and killed because of their affiliation with armed groups. In certain cases the government and its organizations are being held responsible for forms of child soldiering. Child soldiering in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is a problem that must be stopped soon.

Joseph Kony, an African warlord, gained international notoriety after his violent guerrilla group, the Lord’s Resistance Army, went viral online in the “Kony 2012” video. While Kony has committed numerous atrocities in the past, recently both his power and numbers have dwindled considerably. There are potential threats that require the resources and manpower allocated to the continued hunt for Kony. The United States should not continue the search for Joseph Kony as he is no longer a threat deserving of such attention.

“Over the last ten years, two million children have been killed in conflict. Over one million have been orphaned, [and] over six million have been seriously injured or permanently disabled” according to Children in Conflict: Child Soldiers. In poor, war-stricken countries, impotent children starting from the young age of 5 are being forcibly recruited, kidnapped, and inhumanly threatened into joining sanguinary, brutal wars. These impuissant kids are often appallingly injected with drugs that obscure their mind so that they cannot comprehend the crimes they are committing, as their logical state is made nebulous by their commanders. The issue of if these vulnerable, frightened children should be prosecuted for the war crimes they

First , children are recruited into government armies or any private organization because they are acquiescent to people who tend to be older than them. For example, if someone older was to instruct a child to do something, then they are more likely going to obey that person. Children are afraid of people who tend to have more capability than them. According to Esha Chhabra who is a journalist, “ As a result, crimes pertaining to child soldiers can be tried in the International Criminal Court—as in the case of Dominic Ongwen, a commander of the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda, who was abducted at 10 by the LRA and forced to fight.”Abduction is also one of the main ways how children are forced to become soldiers at a very young age. When

Children recruited into the armed forces in these countries are forced by their commanders to commit atrocities against other soldiers and villagers. They may also suffer through punishments themselves. Commanders have been known to force their child recruits to witness and/or commit abuses against their own families or captured prisoners (“Coercion and Intimidation of Child Soldiers to Participate in Violence” 1). For instance, child soldiers recruited into Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance Army have been forced to tie their parents to trees and club them to death or be killed themselves (Taylor 1). Physical

Joseph Kony is the leader of the rebel group the L. R. A. in Uganda, the Lord restistances army. For 26 years Kony has been kidnapping children, to make the girls sex slaves and the boys child soldiers. He makes kill them their own parents, and if there is someone not strong enough on in his army he makes them kill each other. The L. R. A. is responsible for 1000 murders every week! And he has kidnapped over a 40,000 children! Maybe the worst thing of it all is: He isn’t doing it to for a reason, he is only doing it to maintain power. This man has to be stopped! The only problem is, 99% of the people have no clue who Kony is

The Lord's Resistance Army, or LRA, is a brutal rebellious group led by Joseph Kony. The fight between the Ugandan government and the LRA is one of the longest running battles in African history dating back to 1986. To many experts, the LRA is one of the most brutal forces in the world. The LRA is notorious for committing human rights violations including murder, mutilation, rape, widespread abductions of children and adults, sexual slavery, and looting of villages. Throughout its years of existence, the LRA has grown to be a feared group by many people and surrounding countries in Africa. The LRA emerged in northern Uganda in 1987, the year after Yoweri Museveni, a rebel leader from southern Uganda, seized power, ending nearly a decade of

• There is a war that lasted 12 years in Uganda, and children are going through many killings and murdering

Forgotten. Isolated. Alone. The people of Uganda live in constant fear of one man who has torn their lives apart. Joseph Kony is the leader of a rebel group called the Lord’s Resistance Army. The LRA began in 1986 under the rule of Alice Lakwena and was called the Holy Spirit Movement. Lakwena was an Acholi and claimed to be a mystic fighting for the rights of her people (“Kony, Joseph”). She led a violent rebellion against the Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and when she was exiled, Joseph Kony took over her movement. Kony formed a new group, with Lakwena’s followers, called the Lord’s Resistance Army (Johnson).  His goal was to create a new government based on the Ten Commandments and to purify the Acholi people. In order to achieve his

Consequently, human trafficking cause victims to exhibit violent behaviors, particularly in that of the children soldiers who partake in militarized conflict. Africa Recovery United Nations (as cited in Allais, 2006) documented that in the regions of Sub-Saharan Africa there are over 120,000 children in armed conflict that carry out the tasks of killing people, raiding villages for food, laying mines and explosives, act as guards and spies; these children are tortured, threatened and sexually abused. Remorselessly, child soldiers are often time given dangerous assignments and at other times ordered to commit heinous acts against their community and family (Allais, 2006). Furthermore, trafficked children of Sub-Saharan are recruited in hostilities

For almost 30 years now, Joseph Kony has been recruiting young boys as boy soldiers and girls as sex slaves for his army. However, most people weren’t aware of these horrors until a video by the organization Invisible Children, “Kony 2012”, went viral three years ago. The organization started in 2003 when three filmmakers traveled to Africa in search of a story not knowing they would find friendship and new responsibilities. Ever since then, the Invisible Children organization has worked through social media and other websites to promote support and gain followers to put an end to the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and had a huge success at one point until some became skeptical of the validity of this charity .

Two young boys, Jacob and Thomas, had escaped from the rebel army and were forced to hide from the rebels that were hunting them. Nobody joined the Lord’s Resistance Army voluntarily. The army sought out the children who were younger and therefore easiest to brainwash. Over 750,000 had been abducted. Kony, leader of the LRA, desensitized the children through violent indoctrination.

The Lord’s Resistance Army located in central Africa is a religious cult that abducts, enslaves, and kills men women and children. Their motive is simply to sustain power and control. Terrorist groups take advantage of people and animals in the most cruel and inhumane ways. : Ivory trafficking and terrorist groups in Africa are in collusion, and create devastating and calamitous effects for both elephants and humans.

Who is the Lord’s Resistance Army? The LRA is a rebel Christian cult that has “terrorized” Uganda for nearly thirty years. In 1986, the LRA began as an “evolution of the Holy Spirit Movement.” Led by Alice Lakwena, the Holy Spirit Movement was a rebellion against the oppression of North Uganda by their president, Yoweri Museveni.(invisible children, 2014) Claiming that she was possessed by the spirit of a long-dead Italian soldier, Lakwena was seen unfit to remain the leader of the Holy Spirit Movement. When she was exiled in 1987, Joseph Kony, her supposed cousin, took over the group, renaming it the Lord’s Resistance Army. With hopes of bringing down the Ugandan