UGANDA’S rebel outfit, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), has been angered by a new US proposal urging rebel leader Joseph Kony (pictured) and his other indicted colleagues to surrender to the government of Uganda and give up themselves to the national judicial process, largely to shake off the International Criminal Court (ICC).
The proposal, circulating to negotiators in the South Sudan regional capital Juba, has prompted Kony to accuse US President George Bush’s administration of exerting pressure on the rebels and using underhand methods. The US and EU last week joined the South Sudan mediated talks in Juba as observers.
In a document; Scenario For Peace and Justice in Northern Uganda, Mr Timothy Shortley, senior adviser to US Assistant Secretary for African Affairs, Dr Jendayi Fraser, who has been in Juba as a US observer to the peace talks, says his proposals are meant to expedite the negotiations.
In the paper, the US representative proposes that Joseph Kony and his colleagues who are wanted by the ICC, place themselves in the custody of the Ugandan authorities. This, he says, would ensure they are safe and a peace agreement signed in Juba.
“The proposal…has prompted Kony to accuse US President George Bush’s administration of exerting pressure on the rebels”
Pressuring the chief murderer of a gang of murderers to give himself up? I am shocked! Shocked!
The Einsteins at our State Department cannot figure out why this reasonable request of theirs has been so rudely rejected.
Isn’t this the group that mutilates women’s faces just to show they can?
No deal, no surrender. Hunt them down, every last one, shoot them like the dogs they are, and do to Kony what the Italian resistance did to Mussolini.