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Joseph Kony is the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), an armed group that has operated in Uganda and surrounding regions. He is wanted for war crimes and crimes against humanity, including the abduction of children to serve as soldiers and sex slaves, making him a significant figure in international criminal justice efforts.
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Joseph
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Uganda
- Place of birth
- Gulu City
- Occupation
- military personnel
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Military branch
- Lord's Resistance Army
- Image
- Kony 2012 Posters in Washington, DC.JPG
- Number of children
- 42
- Significant event
- Kony 2012
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- date of birth
- 1961-00-00
- birth name
- Joseph Rao Kony
- date of disappearance
- 2006-11-12
- Commons category
- Joseph Kony
- name in native language
- Joseph Rao Kony
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Encyclopedic overview
Joseph Rao Kony (born September 1961) is a 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.
An Acholi, Kony served as an altar boy in his childhood. After the Ugandan Civil War, Kony participated in the subsequent insurgency against president Yoweri Museveni under the Holy Spirit Movement or the Uganda People's Democratic Army before founding the LRA in 1987. Aiming to create a Christian state based on dominion theology, Kony directed the multi-decade Lord's Resistance Army insurgency. After Kony's terror activities, he was banished from Uganda and shifted to South Sudan largely between 2005 and 2006 due to intense military pressure from the Ugandan army and a peace deal between Sudan and southern rebels.
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