Kampala, Uganda (PANA) - The Kampala government has reacted with scepticism to the latest call for peace talks by the Ugandan rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) senior commander.
"We are really not taking this seriously at all. This is not a new tactic," Information Minister and government spokesman James Nsaba Buturo told PANA Wednesday.
He was reacting to media reports quoting Vincent Otti, the LRA's second in command, as having called for resumption of peace talks with the Kampala government.
Otti said he was speaking on behalf LRA leader Joseph Kony.
Both men are wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC), on war crime charges, and Otti was quoted as saying he was prepared to face the Court to defend himself.
The LRA has been fighting President Yoweri Museveni's government from northern Uganda for nearly 20 years.
Previous peace talks between both sides flopped in 2002 and late 2004.
The separatist war has killed hundreds of thousands of people and displaced 1.6 million others.
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