Up to two million villagers fled their fields and gathered in camps of
tightly-clumped mud huts, where they lived with little clean water or
services and where disease was rampant.
As that humanitarian crisis grew, international efforts to bring Kony to the
negotiating table increased. In 2006, a quasi-peace deal saw him agree to
leave northern Uganda.
But he took the rump of his fighters with him, and has since been terrorising
populations in remote jungle areas of northern Democratic Republic of Congo,
South Sudan and the Central African Republic.
An unprecedented alliance of troops from those three countries and Uganda, now
assisted by US military advisors, is hunting him down with a view to
arresting him and handing him over to the International Criminal Court.
Kony was the first man the Court charged, and he faces indictments on 33
crimes including murder, sexual enslavement, rape and attacking civilians.
He is understood now to be in the Central African Republic.
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