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WORLD NEWS Wednesday 10 May 2017
As manhunt ends, top African warlord Kony eludes justice

a community in northern $5 million for information group’s active member-
Uganda once hit by Kony’s leading to Kony’s capture. ship is now less than 100.
rebel insurgency. “Justice is Although scores of LRA The U.S. first sent about 100
what the people demand.” fighters have recently sur- special forces as military
Kony became internation- rendered or been killed, the advisers to the mission in
ally notorious in 2012 when whereabouts of Kony, now 2011, and in 2014 sent 150
the U.S.-based advocacy in his 50s, remain a mystery. Air Force personnel.
group Invisible Children Recent defectors from the Echoing the U.S., Uganda’s
made a viral video high- rebel group suggest he is military last month an-
lighting the LRA’s alleged sick and hiding somewhere nounced it was ending the
crimes. The group is ac- in the vast, ungoverned manhunt and pulling out
cused of killing over 100,000 spaces of central Africa. 1,500 troops because “the
people, according to the In pulling out of the military mission to neutralize the
U.N. mission against the LRA, the LRA has now been success-
The U.S. has offered up to U.S. in March said the rebel fully achieved.”q

In this Nov. 12, 2006 photo,
the leader of the Lord’s Re-
sistance Army Joseph Kony
answers journalists’ questions
following a meeting with UN
humanitarian chief Jan Ege-
land at Ri-Kwangba in South-
ern Sudan. Kony has been
Africa’s most notorious war-
lord for three decades. Now
that the United States and
others are ending the inter-
national manhunt for him and
his Lord’s Resistance Army, it
appears Kony may never be
brought to justice.
(AP Photo/Stuart Price)

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA
Associated Press
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP)
— Indicted for killing thou-
sands and kidnapping chil-
dren to become soldiers
and sex slaves, Joseph
Kony has been Africa’s
most notorious warlord for
three decades. Now that
the United States and oth-
ers are ending the interna-
tional manhunt for him and
his Lord’s Resistance Army,
it appears Kony may never
be brought to justice.
His elusiveness in the often
lawless bush of central Af-
rica is legendary.
In one incident Ugandan
military forces in hot pur-
suit raided Kony’s hideout
deep in a Congo wildlife
park in 2008 and seized lit-
tle but a wig and guitar he
left behind.
Despite the millions of dol-
lars spent to catch him,
Kony has outlasted his hunt-
ers. That’s a blow to victims
who hoped he would stand
trial at the International
Criminal Court where he
has been charged for war
crimes and crimes against
humanity.
“The yearning for justice is
there,” said Judith Akello, a
lawmaker who represents