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Joseph Kony
Joseph Rao Kony is an Acholi Ugandan militant and warlord who founded the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), designated as a terrorist group by the United Nations Peacekeepers, the European Union, and various other governments including the United Kingdom and United States.
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politics · Head of the Lord's Resistance Army (born 1961) · terrorist · warlord · politician · military personnel · Commander · also Joseph Kony, Joseph Rao Kony, Kony
Born 1961 · Q104419
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New York Sun: With Joseph Kony’s Trial To Begin in September, the Notorious Warlord’s Whereabouts Are a Mystery and Justice Proves Elusive
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2025· 2 entries
New York Sun: With Joseph Kony’s Trial To Begin in September, the Notorious Warlord’s Whereabouts Are a Mystery and Justice Proves Elusive
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2024· 2 entries
Benzinga.com: Machine Gun Preacher: 'Joseph Kony, Wanted Dead or Alive'
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The hearing was scheduled for 15 October
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2023· 3 entries
Yahoo: Who is Joseph Kony? The altar boy who became Africa's most wanted man
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standardmedia.co.ke: Joseph Kony: Altar boy who became Africa's most wanted man
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The Africa Report: Uganda: Joseph Kony, the one that got away
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2022· 1 entry
The Conversation: Ugandan rebel Joseph Kony: the latest US arrest bid raises questions
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2015· 1 entry
That Kony's forces had been responsible for the deaths of over 100,000 and the abduction of at least 60,000 children
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2013· 2 entries
AllHipHop: Accused War Criminal Joseph Kony In Talks To Surrender
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Kony was reported to be in poor health, and Michel Djotodia, president of the CAR, claimed he was negotiating with Kony to surrender
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2008· 2 entries
Responding to a request by Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni to engage in peace talks via telephone, he said, "I will communicate with Museveni through the holy spirits and not through the telephone
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The Ugandan army invaded the DRC in search for the LRA in Operation Lightning Thunder
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2006· 2 entries
In the Juba peace talks with the LRA rebels, Museveni's government gave permission for local people to return to their villages
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The Lord's Resistance Army no longer operates in Uganda
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2005· 1 entry
For war crimes and crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, but he has evaded capture
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2004· 1 entry
Only Kony remained at large at that time
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1994· 1 entry
Kony was preceded by men in robes sprinkling holy water
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1992· 1 entry
Was released after the government no longer viewed him as a threat
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1989· 1 entry
Before the insurgency, he escaped to Uganda
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1987· 2 entries
Kony joined the anti-government Ugandan People's Democratic Army
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And ended in 1999 after his return from Jebel Lem, Sudan
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1961· 1 entry
Born 1961.
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