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Title: | An African hell of colonial imagination? The Lord's Resistance Army/Movement in Uganda, another story |
Author: | Finnström, Sverker |
Year: | 2008 |
Periodical: | Politique africaine |
Issue: | 112 |
Pages: | 119-139 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Uganda |
Subjects: | rebellions Acholi political action |
Abstract: | Joseph Kony's group, today known as the LRA/M, The Lord's Resistance Army/Movement, in Acholiland, Northern Uganda, is now world infamous for its violence. It can be said to be a successor to Alice Lakwena's Holy Spirit Movement, but with time it has incorporated elements from other rebel factions. As most observers, including academics, have dismissed the LRA/M on moral grounds, they have disqualified the movement as nonpolitical, rebels without a cause other than their allegedly bizarre syncretic beliefs. This article indicates an alternative or perhaps complementary direction. The author has done intermittent fieldwork, starting in 1997, in Northern Uganda. He interviewed young adult semi-urban noncombatants, and also supporters in the diaspora and representatives of the rebel side, Moreover, in presenting something of a rarity in the academic literature on the war in Northern Uganda, the article examines actual LRA/M documents, arguing that there is a continuity in the claims and political grievances put forward by the LRA/M throughout the years. Notes, ref., sum. in English and French (p. 216). [Journal abstract, edited] |