Joseph Kony ‘receiving backing from Sudan’

May 1st, 2012

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

“We have no relationship, whatsoever, with this Ugandan rebel and we
have not supported and are not supporting him now,” Mr Masar said. He
said Kony “is nearer to South Sudan than to us and, in any case, we
have no reason to support him. We rely on our own forces and we do not need
anybody to support us in defending our country and ourselves.”

The accusations by Uganda that Sudan is aiding Kony come as the threat of war
between Sudan and South Sudan has increased. The two sides have launched
multiple cross-border attacks and Sudan has launched air strikes in recent
weeks.

Ugandan officials have long accused Khartoum of supporting the LRA in
retaliation for Uganda’s support of the rebel movement known as the SPLA,
which is now South Sudan’s military. South Sudan broke away from Sudan last
year after voting for independence.

Okello Oryem, Uganda’s foreign affairs minister, told The Associated Press on
Monday the LRA would have been long ago eliminated had it not been backed by
Sudan.

“It’s been universally known that the LRA has been receiving support
from elements within the Khartoum government or the Sudan Armed Forces,”
Mr Oryem said. He said Khartoum still gives Kony medicine, guns and uniforms
– “the kinds of things a rebel wants.”

Col Kulayigye said that last week there were reports of Kony’s presence in the
Darfur region of Sudan.

Ugandan Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi told three US lawmakers who visited with
him in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, in early April that Kony may still be
getting supplies from Sudan.

“The original plan of Sudan was to use Kony to destabilise the region,”
he said. “They wanted to use the LRA to attack Chad. Kony was central
to this plan … Kony still has some assistance, not much; it’s covert
assistance. ”

Ugandan officials are concerned that Kony, whose brutal group has navigated
the region’s porous borders in a highly successful campaign of murder and
the abduction of children, could exploit renewed border tensions between
Sudan and South Sudan to get back near Ugandan territory.

Some analysts say the conflict between the north and south is just what the
LRA needs: the opportunity to be courted and then used in a proxy war.

Angelo Izama, a Kampala-based political analyst with the security think tank
Fanaka Kwawote, said it was “the perfect time” for Kony to be
influential again within the region.

“I have no doubt in my mind that it is the intention of the north (to
use the LRA),” he said. “The LRA has always been a beneficiary of
the fight between the north and the south.”

The US troops helping hunt Kony are in four regional countries affected by the
LRA.

The Ugandan military has since 2008 focused on the Central African Republic,
and the top Ugandan commander there insists the warlord is hiding somewhere
in the vast jungle. Col. Joseph Balikuddembe told an AP reporter on Sunday
that Kony is in the Central African Republic. US officials believe he is
likely there as well.

Ugandan foot soldiers said they rarely encounter LRA rebels. Some complained
of boredom, saying they were tired of spending their days looking for a
phantom enemy, and others said the endless search through treacherous jungle
was frustrating. The rank-and-file soldiers said they would like to be
deployed in the Congo, where most of the attacks by suspected LRA have been
reported in recent times.

Ugandan army officials say there are no more than 200 LRA fighters and that
the rebels move in very small groups to avoid being detected. There is no
LRA presence in Uganda, where the group’s rebellion started out as a popular
uprising by northerners against Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni’s
southern-dominated government.

Source: agencies