On the trail of the LRA (2011)
ZEMIO, 22 November 2011 (IRIN) - When Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) was forced out of northern Uganda, it was safely assumed by many observers, including senior commanders in the Ugandan People’s Defence Force (UPDF), that a fast-diminishing, ill-defined insurrection would quickly burn itself out, unable to survive in alien terrain, losing access to what remained of its already disaffected Acholi support base.
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![[Uganda] LRA atrocities include the mutilation of thousands of innocent civilians.](https://assets.thenewhumanitarian.org/s3fs-public/styles/media_list_2x/public/images/200391117.jpg.webp?itok=jDpcJ5L6 "The LRA have mutilated thousands of innocent civilians.")