Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Kony
Joseph Kony (born 1961 in Odek, northern Uganda) is the primary leader of a guerrilla paramilitary group, and possibly new religious movement, called the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), engaged in a violent campaign to establish a theocratic government in Uganda purportedly based on the Bible and the Ten Commandments.
A high-school dropout, he made his first appearance in January of 1987, at age 26. His group was one of many millenarian groups that sprang up in Acholiland in the wake of the wildly popular Holy Spirit Movement of Alice Auma. However, the conflict in the north began in the resentment among the Acholis at their relative loss of influence after the coming to power of Yoweri Museveni in 1986 through the defeat of Acholi President Tito Okello. While the initial resistance to the National Resistance Army in 1986 was by the Uganda People's Democratic Army, the UPDA collapsed in 1988.
Kony claims to be a spirit medium. The primary spirit said to be channeled during the early insurgency was Juma Oris, formerly a government minister under President Idi Amin who at the time was leading the rebel West Nile Bank Front in the northwestern Uganda. Another is the spirit of a Chinese general. Kony is a practising polygamist.
This is what one of the abductees that escaped from Kony observed:
"It was a strange religion Kony adhered to. He prayed to the God of the Christians on Sundays reciting the Rosary and quoting the bible; but he also prayed on Fridays, like the Moslems. He celebrated Christmas, but he also fasted for 30 days during Ramadan and prohibited the consumption of pork." It should,however,be noted that similar practices are not completely unknown,(see Druze).
Reference: p.73 Aboke Girls by Els De Temmerman
http://www.iap.nl.com/speeches_annu...orism_financing_speech_by_richard_buteera.htm
"The Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), which has earned a terrifying reputation for its brutality against the people of northern Uganda, has abducted an estimated 20,000 children over the years."
Reference: Sex slavery awaits Ugandan schoolgirls By Kathryn Westcott, BBC News Online
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3019838.stm
There have been many observations of Kony traveling to Sudan and receiving supplies from Khartoum (currently an Islamic government). The apparent belief in two different religions may be to serve two purposes. They claim to believe in Christianity in order to gain acceptability in the conservative dedicated rural Christian community in which they operate, although it appears Christians and other non-Muslims are their primary targets, as in Sudan. It is reasoned their attempt is to be a proxy disconnecting itself in all appearance from its main backers in Sudan. It must be noted Uganda's close proximity to the similarly troubled regions of Sudan where the Non-Muslim and black populations are killed and displaced by the Janjaweed militia.
The LRA is based in northern Uganda. At the end of 2003, the LRA made an incursion outside of their traditional areas of operation in Acholiland into the Teso regions. Some state that this was the beginning of their "Waterloo," though the Ugandan government has declared that the LRA has been defeated three times since 1986. LRA lieutenants have sporadically engaged in negotiations with the government since 2003, though Kony's negotiating position is ambiguous.
