Synthèse: 6 Tendances Principales dans l’Activité de la LRA

1.La violence de la LRA a grimpé au premier semestre de 2012 (191 attaques) et a graduellement diminuée dans la seconde moitié de l’année (84 attaques).

Cette tendance reflète celle des niveaux d’activité de la LRA observés en 2010 et 2011. Ces tendances ont été influencées par la disposition de la LRA à réduire les attaques pendant la saison des pluies, et indiquent que les civils sont à un risque accru de violence de la LRA dans les premiers mois de 2013.
Voir page 6 pour une analyse plus approfondie

The Quarterly Security Brief provides a summary and analysis of the reported activities of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) from July-September 2012 (Q3 2012). This brief covers LRA activity in Central African Republic (CAR), Democratic Republic of Congo (Congo), South Sudan, and Sudan.

December 19, 2012 by Michael

The first time we ever heard from him, Fr. Benoit Kinalegu had an urgent message to share. On September 18, 2008, he wrote to sound an alarm over a wave of deadly LRA attacks against communities surrounding his town of Dungu in the remote northeastern area of Democratic Republic of Congo. Six communities had been simultaneously targeted by Kony’s forces the day before. In one village, Fr. Benoit said, the LRA marched 50 schoolchildren from their classroom straight into the bush.

On Dec. 4th, the US Senate passed next year’s defense authorizations bill after adding a new provision urging sustained commitment for efforts to help end LRA atrocities. The amendment was introduced by Senators Jim Inhofe (R-OK) and Chris Coons (D-DE), who chairs the Africa Subcommittee. It passed unanimously. The full text is below.

On September 28th, 2012, religious leaders from Congo, Central African Republic (CAR), and South Sudan met as part of the Regional Interfaith Network of Religious Leaders for Peace (Le Réseau Régional et Interconfessionnel des Leaders Religieux pour la Paix, RRILRP) and released a statement expressing their concerns and recommendations for seeing an end to the LRA conflict. They call for increased protection of civilians and humanitarian assistance, especially in the most isolated areas of CAR.

The LRA has long been associated with child soldiers, and rightfully so – UNICEF estimates that the LRA has abducted at least 35,000 children since 1986. But LRA Crisis Tracker data on abductions indicates that the LRA is relying less on abducted children to replenish fighting capacity, corroborating a trend that’s been highlighted anecdotally in the past two years by LRA analysts. Instead, the LRA seem to be abducting more adults, who often escape or are released within a few days, to transport food and other goods looted from local communities.

Recent clashes along the disputed border between South Darfur and Western Bahr el Ghazal in South Sudan have led to large-scale displacement and humanitarian emergency in Raja County, South Sudan. A local government official said this week that the clashes, along with fear of LRA attacks, have left more than 10,000 people without basic services such as food and medical care.

Executive Summary

In October 2011, President Obama announced the deployment of nearly 100 US military advisers to central Africa to assist Ugandan and regional military forces in defeating the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a Ugandan rebel group that has committed atrocities against civilians in the region for over two decades.

March 14, 2012 by Lisa