Former Ugandan LRA Rebels Fear Going Home

A report released Monday outlines a plan to demobilize the Ugandan rebel group the Lord’s Resistance Army.
After operating in northern Uganda since 1987, the LRA recently split into about 10 smaller groups.  In recent years, it’s been blamed for attacks in southern Sudan, the eastern DRC and the Central African Republic.
Now, the report says, many members of the LRA have “given up the fight” and want to return home.  But they’re encountering many obstacles to demobilization and rejoining society.
Far from home
The report, published by the Enough Project, is called Too Far from Home. Speaking from Goma in the eastern DRC, lead author Ledio Cakaj says, “The report is called Too Far from Home because former LRA combatants have been in the last two years led by their commanders    in small groups very far away from Uganda.  At times, over a thousand kilometers usually from northern Uganda.”Read More