Uganda To Hold Talks With LRA Next Week
Nji Che - All Headline News Staff Writer Kampala, Uganda (AHN) - Peace talks between the Ugandan government and the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels will begin next week. A Ugandan government spokesman Robert Kabushenga told the BBC on Monday there would be no conditions for the talks, which will be mediated by the south Sudan government. Kabushenga told the BBC's Focus on Africa program, "There will be no preconditions on our part. We are going there with an open mind." Southern Sudanese President Salva Kiir told a news conference, "In the meantime, consultations will take place. Next week, the talks will begin." Last week, Joseph Kony, a former Ugandan rebel leader who is wanted by a U.N. tribunal said he was not guilty of war crimes. Kony who is the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), a Ugandan rebel group is widely blamed for insecurity in northern Uganda and southern Sudan. The group is accused of killing several thousands of people in a 20-year conflict with government soldiers. Kony's interview, which was aired last week over the BBC, was his first encounter with the media after the group picked up arms two decades ago. Reports say more than fighting in the north of the country has displaced one million people. The former rebel leader has called for peace in the country. Although the group claims its principles are based on the Biblical Ten Commandments, the International Criminal Court in The H |
