Invisible Children- Source #2

The article I read today is entitled "Christian Rebels Wage a War of Terror in Uganda." This article, published in the New York Times, seemed to focus mainly on the supposed aims of the LRA as well as the relationship between the LRA and the Ugandan President and government. The article says, "A year after Uganda's President, Yoweri Museveni, vowed to wipe out the insurgency in the north of this central African country, the bloodthirsty gangs of self-styled revolutionaries and Christian fundamentalist rebels known as the Lord's Resistance Army have not only survived, but are stepping up their campaign of terror." Clearly, the Ugandan government has done little to help this issue and, if anything, has in fact exacerbated its severity. Knowing this, I realize why it is so necessary to gain international involvement with this war, seeing as how the government has no control over the rebel army. Furthermore, the article asserts that the rebels lack the power or organization to actually topple the President, in effect leading to a kind of stalemate. This lack of a just controlling body in Uganda will only lead to the continued use of child soldiers--who make up 90% of the LRA's manpower-- in this war.