Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Kony Kon Kollapses

They have stopped looking.

See: The Kony Kon

"Congress has approved legislation that would expand the State Department’s rewards for a program to target the world’s most serious human rights abusers, with African warlord Joseph Kony a top target. Kony and his ruthless guerrilla group, the Lord’s Resistance Army, are responsible for a nearly three-decade campaign of terror in Central Africa that has been marked by child abductions and widespread killings."

"Search halted for Ugandan warlord: by Sudarsan Raghavan |  Washington Post, April 04, 2013

NAIROBI — The Ugandan military has suspended its hunt for war crimes suspect Joseph Kony and his Lord’s Resistance Army, delivering a major setback to capturing a notorious warlord accused in the abductions of tens of thousands of children over the past three decades.

Wednesday’s announcement came days after rebels seized power in the Central African Republic, where Kony is believed to be hiding, and then refused to cooperate with Ugandan troops stationed in the country.

Related: Do You Care About the Coup in the CAR?

 Globe doesn't because I haven't seen anything since, although I will double-check and redouble my efforts in searching through the masses of unread Globes and read clippings.

As a result, Ugandan Army spokesman Felix Kulayigye told reporters in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, that the hunt for Kony would be suspended ‘‘until further notice.’’

For the past several years, Ugandan forces have sought Kony and the Lord’s Resistance Army in the jungles of the Central African Republic, as well as in Uganda, Congo, and South Sudan.

The Ugandans head an African Union mission of about 3,000 troops, the bulk of whom are from Uganda, in the Central African Republic.

In late 2011, the Obama administration dispatched about 100 US Special Forces troops to advise in the effort to capture Kony.

That is what was really at the bottom of the propaganda campaign. Getting troops in any way you can!

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