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Kampala requests extradition of LRA fund-raiser

[Liberia] Liberian President - Charles Taylor. BBC News
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    Uganda has asked the British government to arrest and extradite former Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) spokesman Powell Onen P’Ojwang, the semi-official ‘New Vision’ reported today. Minister of Internal Affairs Tom Butime said a formal request had been made for Balgara to be extradited to “stand trial for atrocities” committed by himself and LRA leader Joseph Kony. Butime said the government is to ask the Sudanese authorities to issue an arrest warrant for Kony and other LRA leaders based in the country.

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