ASP Board Member Senator John Kerry wrote this fascinating piece on HuffingtonPost about Joseph Koney, leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) which is responsible for committing many atrocities in central and eastern Africa:

We have to start with the uncomfortable reality that this isn’t a new horror introduced to the world. Kony has been an all too familiar nightmare to the people of Central Africa for decades when his LRA terrorized the region, first in Uganda and then, after they were driven out of there in 2006, they moved on to the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, and South Sudan.

Today, Kony and the LRA consist of only a few hundred people, but continue to inflict a level of pain and suffering far greater than their actual size.

Kony is no stranger to many of us in Congress. Two years ago we passed legislation to provide support to regional governments working to protect their people and to apprehend Kony and his top commanders, and remove them from the battlefield. I helped shape the bill, the Lord’s Resistance Army Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act, I co-sponsored it, and I shepherded it through the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 2010.

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