World Report 2011 - Human Rights Watch

LORD’S RESISTANCE ARMYSince September 2008, at least 2,000 civilians have been killed andnearly 3,000 others have been abducted during attacks by the Lord’sResistance Army (LRA). The LRA, a Ugandan rebel group, operates in theborder region between northern Congo, the Central African Republic andsouth Sudan. Many of the victims, including children, were beaten todeath, had their skulls crushed or their heads sliced with machetes.Abducted children are forced to kill their family members. Three of theLRA’s leaders – Joseph Kony, Okot Odhiambo, and Dominic Ongwen –are sought by the International Criminal Court under arrest warrantsissued in July 2005 for war crimes committed in northern Uganda. Allthree remain at large and continue to commit atrocities.Boniface, 14, spent six months as a rebel fighterwith the Lord's Resistance Army and wasreleased after the government Uganda Peoples’Defense Forces (UPDF) attacked their camp.